The news of the sneak attack by the Song army in Lingjingjian, like the spring thunder rolling over the grassland, reached the Mongolian camp in a very short time.

Marshal Tahai is driving the army forward, along the predetermined direction to kill Gongzhou Mansion, the vanguard of the Mongolian army has bypassed Hezhou, to the boundary of Gongzhou Mansion, along the way the prefectures and counties either surrender, or break the city, smooth sailing, like a bamboo.

The huge Sichuan, in addition to a few barbarian states in the south, and the east of Meng Heng guarded by Kuizhou, all lost, the whole Sichuan poisoned under the Mongolian sword, the roadside corpses ambushed the road, there are few ghosts in the city, many of the populous and prosperous giant cities in the past have become rubble and ruins, and the country of abundance has turned into a hellish place under the influence of the war in the past few years.

In such a one-sided situation, the news of the Lingjing Supervisor was like a bolt of lightning, accompanied by thunder, which accurately struck Tahai's heart.

Tahai is calm, when he was a teenager, he followed the general Temujin Tutuha to crisscross the desert, with countless military achievements, and was promoted to the marshal of the capital, leading the army to the south alone, and fighting countless horses in his life, and having the ability to collapse in front of Mount Tai and not change his color, but at this moment, he couldn't help but have a white face.

Kublai Khan is missing!

That is the descendant of the Golden Family of the Great Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, and one of the possible future princes of the Great Mongolian State, who was lost in his own hands!

It is a small matter for the Great Khan of Ogedai to cut off his own head, and it is possible to cut off the heads of the entire Tahai clan.

The moment he received the news, he immediately made a decision, leaving a small group of troops to contain the Song army in place and prevent it from advancing westward.

On the way, there was a general who said that the Great Khan's order was to open up the passage from Sichuan to Huguang, but at this moment the success was about to stop abruptly, it was a pity, it was better to send a general to Lingjing to solve this matter, Tahai still continued to attack Gongzhou according to the original plan.

Tahai reacted quickly, he slapped Jinyan's subordinates from the inside of the big tent to the outside, and rushed out angrily and kicked several times.

"Bastard! A sucker! How did you come out of the grassland! He scolded bitterly, so angry that his face turned green: "Your Highness, if there is any mistake, even if I defeat Lin'an, I will have to lose my head!" Have you forgotten how many people the Great Khan killed when he died of illness in Gangneung a few years ago? I even ate a whip without a warm mouth, what am I compared to him? It's strange that the Great Khan doesn't kill my whole people! ”

The general held his head, ignorant and at a loss, the generals in the tent came to persuade him, and pulled Ta Hai, who was punching and kicking, Ta Hai was still angry, and said angrily: "The Song army has been disabled by us, where do the men and horses dare to sneak attack His Royal Highness Kublai Khan?" It just shows that there is still their combat power in the south, and if such men and horses stay behind us, who can sleep? If you don't solve it with the power of thunder, Your Highness will come up again, you fool still wants to enter the lake, fool! You don't look like a Mongol who grew up in the steppe at all! ”

The beaten person had a blue nose and swollen face, and he didn't dare to say anything, Tahai scolded his mother for a while, and he was anxious again, urging him to go on the road one by one.

The Mongol army in the whole of Sichuan moved, from Chengdu, from Gongzhou, from all directions, along various official roads, post roads, plank roads, and even small roads, flocked to the south of Yancheng Lingjingjian, for a time the small salt-producing area was like the focus of the war, like a dark cloud to bear a huge shadow.

The Song army in the east didn't know what was happening in the west, they just vaguely felt that there seemed to be a lot less Mongolian army nearby, and the original situation of gathering strong soldiers came to naught in a blink of an eye, and the pressure on the front eased down at once.

Because of the isolation from the west, the news from there could not be transmitted, and Peng Daya in Gongzhou City did not know the specific reason why the Mongols suddenly withdrew the main force, and thought that it was a trick to capture and indulge, and the Mongols often used such tricks. They deliberately retreated in stride in front of their opponents to lure them into pursuit, while the Mongol army took advantage of the highly mobile cavalry to set one trap after another on the halfway, eating the pursuing enemy one by one, and when the opponent came to his senses, it was too late to escape.

Therefore, Peng Daya didn't even dare to go out of the city gate, still hurry up, a strong repair of the city, he built 36 large and small forts on the mountains near Gongzhou, the stars are densely packed with Gongzhou Mansion in it, each fort is built on the dangerous peak cliff, easy to defend and extremely difficult to attack, and cross the river with iron cables, set up five water villages on the Yangtze River, the road is equipped with artillery crossbow bows, and there are countless bows and arrows, and all the nearby residents are collected in the city, the walls are clear, and the guards are strictly guarded.

The result of this is tantamount to putting the Shimen Fan Department in the west completely under the fist of the Tahai army, without half of the support feint.

Some people remembered that Wang Kui's army was still outside, and wondered if they had made a disturbance in the west.

This speculation was reprimanded by Peng Daya, who thought it was nonsense, what kind of movement could one or two thousand remnants of Hanzhou make in the heart of the Mongolian army? Did mass suicide frighten the Mongol soldiers?

In short, it was good news that the Mongol soldiers stopped advancing eastward, Peng Daya's throbbing heart calmed down slightly, and further east, Meng Hui, who was rectifying the Xiangfan defense line in Xiangyang, also greatly relieved the pressure, and he could concentrate on managing Jinghu.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Except for the eldest grandson.

He spent the night in the city of Lingjing and left the next day.

Before leaving, he set a fire and burned down the warehouse.

On the afternoon of the third day, a Mongolian cavalry appeared outside the city in a rage.

Mountains of heads and corpses hanging high on the city walls drove the Mongol soldiers who galloped through Sichuan like no man's land.

There has never been only the Mongols piling up the Beijing view, and there has never been another race piling up the Mongolian Jingguan.

Insulting a corpse, in the steppe, is the greatest insult to the living.

They wanted to slaughter the city, but found that the entire Lingjing Prison had become an empty city, and there was not a single living person left.

Of course, this is also a good thing done by Changsun Hong, he expected that the angry Mongol soldiers could not find the Shimenfan army, and they would inevitably be angry with the people of the city, and when they left, they persuaded the people to flee the city and scatter among the mountains.

But Tahai could still find a way to vent his anger, and after ten days he appeared in the Lingjing Prison, and after seeing Jingguan, he ordered the city to be demolished and a huge tomb to be built for the fallen Mongol warriors.

The fire in the city burned for several days, and even the ground was blackened by the flames.

A large number of Red Army detectives sent out did not find any trace of Shimenfan, and many people did not come back, and Tahai's way of dealing with it was very simple, where the people did not come back, they would send more people to which direction.

If you don't find out this hateful Song army, you will never stop!

(End of chapter)