The huge team of the Song army needed water and forage wherever they went, which could not be carried in large quantities during the march, and had to be replenished at any time along the way to meet the huge consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops every day.

The purpose of Du Wa's order was to make the Song army lose the opportunity to replenish grain, grass and meat on the way to fight a war of attrition on this long road, so that the Song army from afar would gradually weaken. Then relying on the geographical advantage to attack flexibly, he prepared to use the surprise assault tactics prevailing on the grassland to attack from different positions, so that the already weak Song army was exhausted.

Du Wow has no underestimate in his heart, the Great Song Dynasty has destroyed Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty, and his strength is no longer the enemy of his khanate, all the tactics that will be like this will be strong and clear, even if the interests of his people are sacrificed first, it will make the Song army lose possible supplies on the road.

There is another point that flips back and forth in Du Wa's heart, for the Song army to launch such a long-distance expedition, what is its purpose has always been uncertain, if the target is his khanate's territory, he must consider letting the direct clan start to transfer the habitat, first avoid its edge.

But if the goal of the Song army was not the Chagatai Khanate, and he showed weakness to the Song Dynasty so much, the khans of several surrounding khanates would probably laugh at him. However, if he lost face, he was afraid that the rest of the families would take the opportunity to join forces and have ideas about his territory, so he formulated such a tactic.

He thought that he could advance and retreat flexibly, and he did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Song army was no longer what it was decades ago, not only was he not afraid of the Mongol cavalry, but he also surpassed the Mongol cavalry in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness in terms of equipment and tactics.

The Song army was like a behemoth that had already set a target, unmoved by the cavalry hiding nearby, the march should be eaten and eaten, and the soldiers of the entire group army did not seem to take the Mongolian cavalry closer and closer to it seriously.

After several successive small-scale assaults and harassments, Duwa's cavalry tasted the bitterness, and basically left all the people behind, as if they took the initiative to send people to beg for death. And the Song army showed no mercy to the soldiers who came to sneak attack, without the slightest hesitation, even if they knelt down and surrendered, they would not stop waving their sabers, there were no wounded soldiers, no prisoners, only corpses in one place.

Zhao Tianyou has no time to look for Duwa's soldiers and horses in this vast land, and there is no attraction in the Chagatai Khanate, which is not a rich land, even if you count the other khanates, all these rivers and mountains that Genghis Khan has conquered will not blink his eyes if they are given to Zhao Tianyou.

If the time is enough, Zhao Tianyou doesn't mind occupying every inch of land here, establishing a new regime as a subject state of the Great Song Dynasty, and step by step bringing the results of Genghis Khan's war and the territory of these khanates under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty.

But Zhao Tianyou doesn't have so much leisure now, he wants to complete a westward expedition in the shortest possible time, the end point is the Abbey of Saint-Denis in France, only after getting the ring, Zhao Tianyou can know the final answer, and these countries along the way, as long as he doesn't take the initiative to harass, he has no heart to toss with them.

Duwa's Chagatai Khanate was the first independent power on the Song army's westward expedition, and Duwa, who claimed to have 200,000 invincible cavalry, was also a militant who sent troops to invade others.

"Li Mingyi, Qu Liu, listen to the order!"

"The last general!"

Li Mingyi Qu Liu and the two of them flashed out from the final generals, stepped forward to Zhao Tianyou's seat and knelt down on one knee, raised their hands high and bowed their heads to salute, these two people have stood out among the young generals, and they have deep trust from Zhao Tianyou.

"Order the two of you to lead 10,000 cavalry each, sweep away the invading enemy from both flanks, don't let the men and horses sent by Du Si affect the advance of the army, if you have the opportunity, beat them hard!"

"Yes!"

Although the continuous raids are nothing, the battle damage caused to the Song army is almost none, but no one likes to always have a bunch of flies around, although there is no harm, but they will buzz and make people upset.

At the beginning, Zhao Tianyou didn't care very much, and felt that it was normal for Du Si to be hostile, but after two battles, he should be very clear about the strength of the Great Song Expeditionary Army, as long as he didn't have water in his head, he wouldn't come to provoke the Song Army again.

At the current speed of the Song army, it will only cross the territory of the Chagatai Khanate in three or five days and enter the territory of the next khanate, the Ögedai Khanate. The current strength of the Ögedai Khanate is the weakest, and the territory left by Genghis Khan has not expanded at all, but has been invaded by several brother khanates.

Although Du Si is far away in the Golden Tent a hundred miles away, there are hundreds of fast horses that are constantly galloping on the road to deliver news, and every move of the Song Dynasty Expeditionary Force cannot escape his surveillance.

Until Li Mingyi and Qu Liu led the army to attack, they shot a lot of scouts sent by Du Si to death, not only to drive away the scouts, but also to sweep away the several thousand-strong troops who were ambushed on the road, stacked the corpses of men and horses into a pile, and cut off the heads and inserted them on the wooden stakes as a warning.

Li Mingyi's team secretly hid six captives alive, who were captured at different times, and told all the information they knew in order to survive, including the location of the Golden Horde of Khan Duwa. In the course of this unhurried march, the map in Li Mingyi's hand had already roughly marked the movement route of the Duwa Golden Horde, and made a prediction of the position after today and tomorrow.

"Sixth brother, how is the information you got over there?"

Li Mingyi's face was solemn, this mission has protected the owner, and a surprise attack can be carried out at the right time, the specific action plan and implementation, he and Qu Liu are independent decisions, since they have received the general order, there is no need to report to Zhao Tianyou's big account for instructions.

Qu Liu smiled and took out a map, the same thing that relied on the information caught in the live mouth every day, Yu Li Mingyi did the same thing, that is, he wanted to give Du Si a ruthless blow, even if he couldn't catch you, he would have to scare you.

The predicted positions on the two drawings almost completely coincided, with only a slight difference, which was really on his own territory, only a hundred miles away from the Song army's brigade, and he followed it so blatantly, as if he wanted to escort the Song army from the border of the Chagatai Khanate.

"Brother, what are you doing? If you get that big one, our brothers will be the first to work! ”

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