After a month, Li Ruohu led 3,000 cavalry to carry out a frantic sweep in Tubo along the route of the Mongol army's march into the Song Territory. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Li Ruohu led a small number of troops, but most of these cavalry are carefully selected brave men among the armies, and Li Ruohu pursued a surprise combat phalanx, light cavalry into Tibet, and then to fight to raise the war, continuous surprise attacks, several small tribes were caught off guard by their cold blows, unprepared several small tribes even almost wiped out, they robbed their horses, cattle and sheep, burned their tents, plundered their women, and beat them to flee towards Houzang, Either seek the protection of friends, or simply merge into other tribes, although this crusade is not long, but it is undoubtedly a great deterrent for the Tibetan tribes.

Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the Song army has never taken such a tough attitude, and has always been very generous to the Tibetan tribes, so the Tubo people have been accustomed to thinking that the Song people are easy to bully, and they don't take the Song Dynasty very seriously at all, even if it is a small tribe, they dare to attack the Song Dynasty border from time to time, and they are not too worried about incurring the retaliation of the Song people.

But this time the situation greatly exceeded their expectations, they did not expect that this time just borrowing the way to the Mongol army, it would cause such a thunderous wrath of the Song Dynasty, and they would actually send troops and horses to directly attack the territory of Tubo, and take such a revenge against the tribes that provided passages and guides for the Mongol army along the way.

After the news spread, the Tibetan tribes were in an uproar, and many tribes were surprised to find that the Southern Song Dynasty suddenly became so fierce and fierce at some point, so that a group of tribes who were still thinking about wanting to join the Mongols had to re-examine the strength of the two sides.

Although the Mongol army was very powerful, destroying many small countries, and even the Western Xia was almost wiped out, but this time their general Tuo Lei led the Mongol army into the Song Dynasty to attack, but he ended up with a feather back, which invisibly seemed to tell the world that the Southern Song Dynasty did not seem to be weaker than the Mongols, at least this time the performance was quite good.

And this time the reaction of the Southern Song Dynasty also greatly exceeded their expectations, many Tubo people began to realize that the current Southern Song Dynasty may not be as easy to bully as before, and this time their reaction also told the Tubo people that being an enemy of the Southern Song Dynasty is not a good thing for the Tubo people, and they may suffer the bloody revenge of the Song army at any time, not to mention that the Tubo is very dependent on the Southern Song Dynasty economically, so that many tribes suddenly put away their contempt for the Southern Song Dynasty, and began to show goodwill to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Li Ruohu's trip to Tibet can be said to have gained a lot, a large number of horses were continuously sent back to the Song realm, greatly improving the demand for war horses of the Song army in Sichuan, and at the same time supporting a number of war horses for the Song army in the western part of Beijing, but Huang Yan was very happy, this guy immediately collected thousands of war horses, re-formed a cavalry team, and began intensive training in Chuzhou.

And Gao Huaiyuan finally waited for Lu Weihuan and handed over the military administration of Sichuan to Lu Weihuan.

Speaking of this Lu Weihuan, in fact, Gao Huaiyuan had a good relationship with him before, when Shi Miyuan was in power, this Lu Weihuan was a royalist, secretly supporting Zhao Yun in charge, but later because he saw that Gao Huaiyuan held real power, Lu Weihuan followed Zheng Qingzhi and tried to suppress Gao Huaiyuan, but Gao Huaiyuan was disgraced, and almost lost his official position and rushed back to his hometown to farm, if Zhao Yun hadn't forgiven Lu Weihuan who had supported him before and protected him once, this old guy would have gone home to plow the land by now.

So Lu Weihuan gritted his teeth with hatred for Gao Huaiyuan now, and after hearing that he was asked to come to Sichuan to replace Gao Huaiyuan, he immediately cleaned up and rushed to Sichuan day and night.

Gao Huaiyuan picked up Lu Weihuan in Lizhou, and politely handed over the affairs at hand to him, and Lu Weihuan didn't dare to be disrespectful to Gao Huaiyuan in person, and promised Gao Huaiyuan with a smile that he would definitely do these things well, as for whether he would really do this, Gao Huaiyuan also knew that it was impossible.

When Gao Huaiyuan set off to leave Lizhou, the city's Chinese military officials and many ordinary people sent each other, and the people were grateful to Gao Huaiyuan for quelling the chaos in Lizhou during this time and repelling the Mongol army, so that they were exempted from calamity, and sent many gifts to Gao Huaiyuan, Gao Huaiyuan naturally declined these things from them, saying that they could receive them, but these gifts could not be received in any case, so that the people around Lizhou were even more admired.

The common people and the civil and military officials sent Gao Huaiyuan to the dock all the time, and then knelt down together to say goodbye to Gao Huaiyuan.

This is our Chinese people, as long as you give them a little favor, they will remember your goodness, thinking that I, as a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty, how can I not think about them! Gao Huaiyuan stood on the side of the ship, looked back at the ordinary people on the dock who had been waving to his team from afar, and said to the people around him.

Erhu has now taken over Li Ruohu's position and has become Gao Huaiyuan's personal commander, and nodded beside Gao Huaiyuan: It's a pity that the time in Sichuan is too short, otherwise, I can do more things for them!

Might as well! After all, the crisis has passed now, and as long as Yue Kun and Huang Yan are here, it is expected that there will be no more major problems in Sichuan! Gao Huaiyuan said casually.

This time, there were only less than a hundred guards who went back with Gao Huaiyuan, and most of the rest of the generals who followed him from the capital were arranged by Gao Huaiyuan to serve as the backbone of the four major capitals, and the lowest ones also became the first commanders, like Xing Fang and Fang Lai, who were directly promoted to prepare generals and stayed under Huang Yan to work.

This time back to Daye for the funeral, Gao Huaiyuan chose to go down by boat, so that a lot of time was saved, from the Jialing River into the Yangtze River, you can go all the way back to Chuzhou to land, but also save a lot of effort.

Along the way, he refused the reception of officials along the way on the grounds of bringing filial piety, and it didn't take long to return to Chuzhou.

On the way back to his hometown, he finally received a long-awaited news that Genghis Khan had really died of illness in Lingzhou in Western Xia, and he did not mourn after his death, until the end of the Western Xia Emperor Li Hui went out of the city to beg for surrender, and the Mongols immediately killed Li Hui and many members of the party and royal family, and entered Zhongxing Mansion to massacre the city, so far the Western Xia Kingdom was completely destroyed.

However, to Gao Huaiyuan's surprise, there was such a thing, some generals and people of the Western Xia Kingdom were unwilling to be enslaved by the Mongols, so they flocked into the territory of Tubo, and along the passage opened by Li Ruohu, they actually fled all the way into the Song realm, in order to get the protection of the Song people.

Yue Kun immediately ordered to open up a place near Jiezhou City to house these Western Xia deserters and refugees, provide them with food and lodging, and follow the practice of Meng Zongzheng in Zaoyang, and incorporated the young and strong among these Western Xia people who fled into the Song Dynasty to form a loyal army, which was subordinate to the Lizhou Ludu Division.

But Yue Kun's approach immediately aroused Lu Weihuan's strong opposition, and issued an edict demanding that all these Western Xia remnants be driven out of the Song realm, and Yue Kun was not allowed to contain them, the reason is very simple, because the Western Xia Kingdom has always been an enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Northern Song Dynasty, although after the Southern Song Dynasty, the two countries no longer border, but the Song people are still hostile to these Western Xia people, afraid that after these Western Xia people enter the Song Dynasty, they will cause trouble, and the other is that they are afraid that because of the shelter of these Western Xia people, they will incur the revenge of the Mongols, and also consume the resources of Lizhou.

After Gao Huaiyuan received this news, he was immediately furious, and scolded Lu Weihuan for being short-sighted on the ship, and even if he repaired two letters, one to Lu Weihuan, telling him that it was best to take in these Western Xia relics, because if he did not contain these Western Xia relics, these people could only starve to death, or be driven into Tibet and become slaves of the Tubo people, which would damage the reputation of the Great Song Dynasty.

The other letter he sent to Yue Kun, so that Yue Kun could only continue to do it according to his method, and it was a big deal to let these Tanguts continue to be sent out, change them to Han Chinese, break them up, and order them to be tuntian in the Jiezhou area as Han Chinese, and provide grain and straw for the Lizhou Metropolitan Division.

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Huaiyuan immediately wrote a note, and directly sent someone to the capital and handed it to Zhao Yun, and tried to show the benefits of sheltering these Western Xia relics, telling Zhao Yun that the Mongols were already the enemies of the Great Song Dynasty, and the enemies of the enemy were friends, not to mention that among these Western Xia people, the vast majority of them were Han people, and these Western Xia people had an unforgettable hatred for the Mongolians. It is hoped that Zhao Yunen will order Lizhou Road to expand the strength of the reception of the Western Xia people, and order Lu Weihuan to withdraw the order to expel the remnants of the Western Xia.

After thinking about it, Gao Huaiyuan also sent someone to send a letter to Huang Hao, ordering Huang Hao to transfer a batch of food and money to Huang Yan secretly, and hand it over to Yue Kun through Huang Yan to support him in sheltering these remnants of Western Xia, in short, one purpose is not to obey Lu Weihuan's orders.

After dealing with this matter, Gao Huaiyuan's ship soon arrived in Chuzhou, and after landing, he did not stop in Chuzhou, and immediately rushed back to his hometown in Daye County.

At this time, the body of Gao Jian, who died in Jiangling, had already been sent back to Daye County, and Zhou Hao, who was guarding the house, had already arranged all kinds of things, and even Gao Huailiang, the second brother of Gao Huaiyuan, who was an official in Haizhou, had already returned to Daye County to guard the system, just waiting for Gao Huaiyuan to go home.

When Gao Huaiyuan stepped into Gaojia Village, Gao Huailiang, who was dressed in filial piety clothes, greeted him from afar with tears, and Gao Huaiyuan immediately bowed down to Gao Huailiang and said to Gao Huailiang with grief: Second brother! The foolish brother came back late

Gao Jian's funeral can be said to be extremely grand, for him, it can be regarded as finally returning to his hometown, Daye Gao family has produced such a high-ranking official as him, and it can be regarded as an ancestor to accumulate virtue, not to mention that in addition to him, he has also cultivated a more outstanding descendant of the Gao family, so the surrounding dignitaries and squire relatives have rushed to Gaojia Village to mourn him, which for Gao Jian, if he knows everything, he should also smile.