The Spring Festival of the third year of Xianchun passed safely, and Sichuan and Yunnan have entered the busy season of spring ploughing, and in accordance with the requirements of the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, the vast majority of officials at all levels of government have gone deep into the villages and towns to supervise the spring ploughing and production, and at the same time inspect and find that the people who are living in poverty and cannot cultivate the land on time will give them certain help. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the other hand, the grain they bought from the south also gathered in Chengdu Fucheng and Lizhou West Road and Lizhou East Road through different routes.

Wu Shaogang's Spring Festival, is still very comfortable, father-in-law Li Tingzhi and mother-in-law Gong, all came to Chengdu Fucheng, although it is not as prosperous as the capital Lin'an Fucheng, but finally relieved, Li Tingzhi also began to contact Sichuan and Chengdu Fucheng Many matters, and Li Siqi's focus began to tilt towards the army.

Akecha's pregnancy, as well as Li Hanwei's pregnancy again, including Luzhu's pregnancy, made Wu Shaogang quite emotional, it seems that in a few years, he will have a lot of children.

After Li Hanwei reunited with her parents, she was in a good mood, and she also handed over most of the things in the family to Yuhuan to take care of, Wu Shaogang rarely cared about the affairs of the family, after the Gong family came to Chengdu Fucheng, he thought that Wu Shaogang's mansion was not enough, and specially arranged some people from home to enter the mansion, which increased the number of people in the family, and there were more people who served Wu Shaogang and others on weekdays.

The change of status means that the environment in which you are located must also change, which is not something that Wu Shaogang can control, he can only accept it, and if he wants to use the thoughts of a thousand years later to teach today's people, people can only think that you are a psychopath.

It's March.

News began to come from the Mongolian court one after another.

According to the information transmitted by Zhang Wenqian, the Mongolian Marshal Ashu arrived in Dadu, and after meeting with the emperor, he arrived at the mansion of the Mongolian prince Moge and Hedan and others, and he didn't know what to discuss.

From this time onwards, there were scattered Mongol armies moving in the direction of Huaibei.

This once made Hao Jing and others wonder if the Mongolian court placed the direction of the main attack in Lianghuai.

Wu Shaogang confirmed his judgment through this information, and Kublai Khan was afraid that he had made the final decision to launch an attack on the Great Song Dynasty from Xiangyang, and finally destroy the Great Song Dynasty.

Kublai Khan summoned Ah Shu, Wu Shaogang didn't feel strange about this news, after all, he knew history.

But the evolution of history to the present, has undergone a lot of changes, from the Mongolian court and Kublai Khan's series of actions, after the end of spring, large-scale conquest may be fully rolled out, which is more than half a year earlier than the attack at the end of the year recorded in the history books, once again with the Mongolian prince Hedan as the main commander, but also shows Kublai Khan's determination.

At the beginning of April, a bombshell news came.

The Mongolian prince Habichi went to the city of Kaifeng.

This news aroused Wu Shaogang's great attention, and also made him start to think about all the next strategic deployments.

Wu Shaogang had judged before that once the Mongol army began to attack Xiangyang, the imperial court and the Privy Council would definitely send a large army to help, and the Hezhou imperial army stationed in Sichuan would bear the brunt, if the Hezhou imperial army went to Xiangyang according to the imperial court's edict, then Habichi, who was stationed in Kaifeng, would definitely lead the army and begin to attack Sichuan.

This shows that Kublai Khan's ambition is huge, and his operational thinking is also clear, not to take Xiangyang as the location of the attack, but to take into account Sichuan.

There is no such record in the history books, but the situation at that time was different, Lizhou East Road, Lizhou West Road, Chengdu Fu Road and Tongchuan Fu Road many Fuzhou counties were occupied by the Mongolian army, only Chongqing Fu Road and Kuizhou Road and a small number of places were still under the control of the Song army, these places were no longer enough to affect the overall situation, in this case, Kublai Khan would completely give up the strategic deployment of attacking Sichuan.

The current situation is different, the whole of Sichuan is under the control of the Song army, and it is the Central Plains that is directly threatened, and it is also key places such as Jingzhaofu Road and Fengxiang Road, you must know that these places have the spirit of kings for the Han people.

Kublai Khan would definitely be worried about this, and sent Habichi to Kaifeng Fucheng to take command, on the one hand, he could take advantage of the empty opportunity of Sichuan to attack, and on the other hand, he could also defend the Central Plains.

The hero is the hero, the angle of looking at the problem and doing things is different, and all aspects are taken into account.

However, Wu Shaogang has made up his mind that he will never rush to the aid of Xiangyang, and will attack the Central Plains without hesitation after the start of the war.

Taking Kaifeng Mansion means that Wu Shaogang's prestige will reach its peak.

However, at the same time as reaching the peak, it also means that Wu Shaogang will fight against the main force of the Mongol Tatars.

In the capital, the fourth master, who has entered Jia Rudao's mansion, has also received a steady stream of important news.

Jia Nidao did not notice any actions of the Mongol court, and his main consideration was still how to increase the tax of the court, and the civil and military ministers in the court became more and more attached to Jia Nidao's disciples, in order to be able to keep his official position and maintain his own status.

Jia Rudao is not as unbearable as described in history, at least when he was the prime minister, he still thought about the affairs of the court.

The most disappointing thing is the emperor, the emperor's dependence on Jia Nidao has reached the point of no return, and he doesn't care about any matters in the court on weekdays, what is the threat of the Mongol Tatars, what is the hardship of the people, etc.

Jia Yidao's sluggishness, as well as the dullness of the imperial court, surprised Wu Shaogang.

Xiangyang is about to face a major danger, indicating that the door of the Great Song Dynasty is in danger, once the door is opened, the Great Song Dynasty court will face the situation of destruction, if Xiangyang falls, then the capital of the Great Song Dynasty Lin'an has no danger to defend, directly facing the Mongolian army.

With the courage of the Mongolian army, unless it is a large army from Sichuan, even if the emperor sends an edict to the king of the world's soldiers and horses, it will have no effect, but unfortunately at that time, Wu Shaogang's focus was on the Central Plains, and he would never go to the south of the king.

Cao Wengang once made a suggestion, whether to inform the imperial court and inform the Mongolian army of the movement, but without waiting for Wu Shaogang to make a decision, Li Tingzhi, Hao Jing and others vetoed this suggestion.

It's not that Wu Shaogang doesn't want to inform Jia Yidao, it's just that he has lost confidence in the Great Song Dynasty, so the corrupt and degenerate dynasty will be left to fend for itself, and saving it will have no effect.

The army of the Great Song Dynasty is controlled by the Privy Council, that is, in the hands of Jia Nidao, you must know that Jia Nidao does not know how to use troops at all, nor does he know how to defend against the attack of the Mongol Tatars, does this not mean that when the battle has not yet begun, the Great Song Dynasty is already at a disadvantage.

In April, the festival made the yamen begin to be highly busy.

Li Tingzhi, Hao Jing, Li Siqi, Cao Wengang, and others analyzed the information sent by the Intelligence Bureau almost every day, compared the situation between Lin'an Mansion and Dadu, and observed the situation of the movement of Mongolian troops in Huaibei and Kaifeng.

Wu Shaogang looked detached and paid little attention to details, but the smile on his face became less and less, and most of them were serious, which made Li Tingzhi, Hao Jing and others understand that an era of great turmoil is coming.

Finally, at the end of April, important information arrived.

Hedan has set off for Huaibei, and nearly 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry troops have also gone to Huaibei, and the other 20,000 Mongolian iron cavalry are heading in the direction of Kaifeng Fucheng.

Judging from the intelligence detected by the Intelligence Agency and the information provided by Zhang Wenqian, the total number of new annexed troops concentrated in Huaibei has exceeded 100,000, plus 50,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, the total number of troops invested by the Mongolian court to attack Xiangyang has exceeded 150,000, which is by no means an ordinary attack, but the final attack on the Great Song Dynasty.

In the capital, Jia Rudao still didn't show any performance, and in the information provided by the fourth master, there was no mention of this matter at all.

Even Li Tingzhi shook his head and sighed, at such a critical moment, the imperial court should have behaved.

At the beginning of May, the imperial court finally made a move, probably sensing the movement of the Mongol army.

Lu Wenhuan served as the prefect of Xiangyang and concurrently served as the deputy envoy of Jingxi to pacify him.

The official position of the prefect of Xiangyang is nothing, but the position of the deputy envoy to pacify is not ordinary, you can mobilize the army, and when the situation is in crisis, you can control all matters.

The imperial court finally made a move, but the next information surprised Wu Shaogang, in the edict issued by the Privy Council, it was actually only the dispatch of the imperial army of Jingnan Mansion to guard Xiangyang, and the Ezhou imperial army, which was an important force in the Xiangyang area, was still stationed on the periphery of Ezhou.

The imperial army of Jingnan Prefecture has 16,000 troops, and has always been responsible for the garrison of Xiangyang, while the imperial army of Ezhou has 50,000 troops, and its troops are much stronger.

It's time to burn his eyebrows, doesn't Jia Rudao understand that Xiangyang needs heavy troops.

Li Tingzhi even felt angry at such an arrangement by the Privy Council, wouldn't this be a surrender of many places outside Xiangyang to the Mongol army.

Or Wu Shaogang's analysis, unveiled the secret, probably the imperial court thought that the Mongol army's attack place could not be Xiangyang Fucheng, and what it did was just a move to scare the Song Dynasty, and its real offensive focus should be Sichuan, so Xiangyang and other places do not need to be strictly defended.

After Wu Shaogang analyzed, all that everyone left was a sigh. (To be continued.) )