On the fifth day of the fifth month of the tenth year of Chunyou of the Great Song Dynasty, the eight ten thousand households of the Monan Han land that were enshrined in Mongolia, as well as the hundreds of thousands of households below, moved at the same time.

On the long front of thousands of kilometers from Jinan, Shandong Province to Jingzhaofu in Guanzhong, a large number of soldiers drove out of their respective towns and territories, and under the leadership of their respective generals, they spread to the territory of the Song army, which was either waiting for the battle or ignorant and ignorant.

Contact occurred at the same time, from the Huai River to the Yangtze River, all the way to the tributaries of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Song army's forward cities along the coast, there were terrible alarms rising from the wolf smoke, and the messenger knights carrying red flags risked out from the locust-like bows and arrows, and sent the news of the attack to the towns and cities of the envoys, to the key points guarded by heavy troops everywhere, and to Lin'an, the center of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Privy Council was in turmoil, and tension arose in the Imperial City.

Five years ago, the Mongolian soldiers approached the Yangtze River and almost fought the scene of natural danger, which was turned out from the depths of memory, and those bloody scenes that were vivid in the purpose once again hit the nerves of countless people in their minds.

It is impossible to tell whether this is a full-scale offensive, a war to destroy the country, or a large-scale looting operation as usual.

Whatever it was, the war machine of the Southern Song Dynasty had to be mobilized, and in response to the rumbling armaments, batch after batch of envoys were sent out to the north to find out the truth.

Unlike the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is in turmoil, the Hanzhong Basin, which is located upstream, has very little fluctuation.

In the past few months, the road that was dug up and the bridge that was burned down were still the same, and there was no Guanzhong direction to rest and recuperate for the army to pass, but some small groups of Mongolian troops came to check on it, and looked at the Song army from a distance across the stone and the stream, and only looked at each other, and there was no further action.

The atmosphere was tense, but it was only tense.

In the afternoon of this day, on the Chencang Road connecting Guanzhong Dasanguan and Fengxian in Hanzhong, a group of Song soldiers appeared.

The mountain road is difficult, although the Chencang Road has been repaired for many years since the end of the Han Dynasty, it is no longer a narrow path when Liu Bang secretly crossed, but it is not spacious, and it can only pass mules and horses, which is not as easy as the avenue on the official road on the plain.

Therefore, these Song soldiers were all on foot, not on horseback. Occasionally, when the woodcutter and hunter meet him, they will be amazed, these Song soldiers walked up the mountain road, which was light and fast.

Even the young man inside who was like a general in chain mail was like an ordinary soldier, moving freely on the mountain road without any effort to breathe.

This is a group of strong soldiers, the woodcutter hunters secretly praised.

The Song soldiers walked on the mountain road and came to the bank of the ancient road.

Here is a dangerous place on the Chencang Road, the ancient road river water from the plank road surging through, at the moment has not yet reached the flood season, the river is not high, there is still some distance from the plank road, but the Song soldiers dug the road, the river water impact, made here into an insurmountable moat.

The mountains next to it are high and steep, it is very difficult to climb up, many places are overgrown with trees, thorns, grasses, vines, and mountains, if it is not for the local people who climb the mountain here all the year round to collect medicine, it is almost impossible to find a way to climb the mountain.

When the barbarians sent to guard here saw their own people coming, they immediately came up to greet them, and there were hundreds of people here who set up shacks in the mountains to keep an eye on them to prevent people from coming from Guanzhong from rushing to pass through.

Changsun Hong stood on the edge of the broken plank road and looked out into the distance covered by mountains and forests on the opposite side.

In the distance, deep in the trees, there seemed to be soldiers in different clothes peeping at this place, and the two sides were separated by obstacles that could not be passed, and they looked at each other.

"It's a bit like a Han soldier." Changsun Hong looked at it for a while and said: "The dress, hairstyle, and appearance are different from the Mongolians and the Semu people." ”

"Yes." Liu Xiaolei, a barbarian general who was responsible for guarding several man-made obstacles in this area, stood next to him and said: "We have also observed for a long time, it should be the Han people from the North, they came here, and they were not in a hurry to leave after being blocked, nor did they cut down trees and build bridges, they just stopped and observed, and they didn't know what they were doing." ”

"They're probably doing the same thing as you." Eldest Sun Hong pondered for a moment and laughed: "We stopped them for fear that they would come, and they were probably worried that we would go out." ”

"Huh? The ghost king is saying that they are also staring at us? Liu Xiaolei was a little surprised.

"Although the Mongols have many soldiers, they are more extensive, and it is inevitable that they will be overstretched when they spread out." Changsun Hong said: "It is impossible to be exhaustive, there are always priorities, seeing that we are well prepared and ready here, we will feel that it is not good to invest in strength, it is better to let it go first, and wait for it to succeed elsewhere, and then it is not too late." ”

"I see." Liu Xiaolei was stunned.

He asked, "So how do we do it?" ”

"If they don't come, let's not rush over." The eldest grandson squinted his eyes and looked at the sunny mountain, where the mountains were verdant, and all the primeval dense forests were seen at a glance, and it was estimated that when people walked in, even the sun above their heads would be obscured by leaves.

"It's not so easy to break through here, and keep an eye on it first, don't be impatient!"

Liu Xiaolei agreed and sent Changsun Hong away.

Changsun Hong and his entourage jumped in the mountains, constantly flickering in the depths of the forest, and ran towards another road destruction point set up in the Qinling Mountains.

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On the other side of the Qinling Mountains, on the east side, cross the Bear's Ears Mountain to the direction of Wuguan, compared with the place where Changsun Hong is located, it is much more lively.

On the spacious and smooth official road, a large number of soldiers under Liu Heima's command, Ge Tiejia, and war horses Hehe, hurried forward in the banner swagger.

This is the buffer front between Liu Heima and Junzhou Fan Yongji, which has not been used for many years, since the death of Jin, it has become the dividing line between Fan Yongji and Liu Heima, and the Song and Mengxi front lines are still separated by a large area of land in Junzhou, so there are not many military disasters, and the people are still safe.

The recent battle can make the people of Henan frightened, and they have moved away with their families and avoided the mountains to avoid the military disaster.

When a war starts, it is always the common people who suffer.

The army crossed the border and set up camp in Nanyang Prefecture, not far from the Wuguan Pass.

Kublai Khan was in the camp, and several of his generals compared on the map.

"News came from Sanguan, the Song army in Hanzhong dug its own roads, blocked the mountains, and strictly prevented our army from entering through the pass, our people checked all the roads, and the Song army guarded it very tightly, and there were no flaws." Liu Heima's subordinate Qianhu Tian Xiong reported respectfully that he was stationed in Hanzhong for a thousand households, lost his territory, and was very frightened.

When Kublai Khan heard this, he smiled, and his face as wide as a big cake showed a mouthful of yellow teeth: "Unexpectedly, the Song soldiers in Hanzhong are not many, only one or two thousand people, and all of them are foot soldiers, where do you dare to come out and fight a decisive battle with my Great Mongolia in the plains?" If they cower, let him go, as long as they do not copy our back. ”

"Your Highness is wise, I can't wait!" Liu Heima hurriedly sent the fart.

"Fan Yongji, who is positive, how did you react when you saw my army coming?" Kublai Khan ignored him, just looked at the map and asked.

Liu Heima was bored, and said with a braised face: "Tanma reported, Fan Yongji dismissed all the people in the territory, moved to Xiangyang, put away the young and strong, and retreated in several cities such as Junzhou, Dengzhou, Guanghua Army and Gucheng, closed the city and defended it, with the intention of leaving no one behind." ”

"Oh?" Kublai Khan touched his face with interest, opened his slender eyes a little wider, and sneered: "Fan Yongji actually thought of this method? Where have his people gone? ”

"He ruled hundreds of thousands of people, where can he move away in a moment? Now scattered all over the land of Henan, the front is fast to Xiangyang, and the slow back is still trekking ten miles in front of our camp. Liu Heima's replied.

"Hahaha! I said how good this person was, daring to betray my Great Mongolia, but unexpectedly he was as stupid as a pig and as incompetent as a dog! Hahaha! ”

Kublai Khan burst into laughter, and the laughter was like a flood of bells crossing at night, reaching straight into the sky.