Yan Zhongji wanted to step on two boats, on the one hand, he arranged for his third brother to abandon Yuan and join Ming; On the one hand, he also inquired about the location of Chen Dexing's main force, and asked for a pair of plate armor from Li Cuixian to present to Kublai Khan - not to please Kublai Khan with this plate armor, but Kublai Khan's mahjong card figure could not wear the plate armor of Li Cuixian's personal guard. The purpose of sending the plate armor to Kublai Khan was to emphasize the difficulties.

The strongest elites of the Northern Ming Dynasty have already put on this invulnerable steel armor, and his Yan family soldiers are invincible, so they have to abandon Yuguan and leave......

However, his news and plate armor did not reach Kublai Khan quickly, because Kublai Khan was not staying in Jingzhao Mansion honestly now.

Where did he go?

Yan Zhongji didn't know, and he didn't want to know—anyway, if the things and news were sent, they would always go to the hands of the Mongol Great Khan.

But Li Pu, who was personally driving the expedition, wanted to find out where Kublai Khan and his 100,000 Mongol army went.

The golden drums are beating, and the army is like a cloud.

The people of Luodu are full of streets and alleys. Households on the street, incense cases, how many soldiers, spread along Luoyang Royal Street, five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry. It's a good faction with heavy guards, and it's really the majesty that the Tang Dynasty Emperor can only have.

Tianfang and Dan, the Son of Heaven came out of the Luoyang Forbidden School, accompanied by 3,000 Yulin Forbidden Army, wearing armor and holding soldiers, all of them are tall and strong men, guarding the Son of Heaven. This Yulin forbidden army is not among the soldiers of the Eight Guards, but the elite of the elite who was selected from the soldiers of the Eight Guards, who were fed with thick and fine grains, and who were personally taught the pear flower spear technique by the nuns of the Destroying Gate, and were strictly trained. Now they are all dressed in bright light armor. Holding a steel spear (the head of the spear was imported from the Northern Ming Dynasty). These 3,000 feather forests are not shelves for people to see. It's an elite soldier who really wants to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy!

The chariot that Li Pu sat on was not the standard of the Tang Dynasty. It was an oversized four-wheeled carriage drawn by sixteen horses. The body is thick and solemn, inlaid with copper nails, and the flag of the Son of Heaven flutters on the car, which only makes people feel awe-inspiring.

This mighty procession, together with the dazzling banner of the Son of Heaven, passed through the city, and immediately provoked bursts of tsunami-like shouts of long live. But Li Pu sat in the car, but his brows were tightly locked, as if he was preoccupied.

After the Yulin Forbidden Army, it was a queue of hundreds of officials and generals, and there was no martial arts. All of them were armoured and armed, and they rode with them. Li Pu founded the country with martial arts, and learned the lesson of the Song Dynasty of emphasizing literature over martial arts, so he naturally admired martial arts. Even civilian officials are mostly proficient in the art of war, and they are good at swords and bows.

And these civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty were all like Li Pu at this time, with frowns and heavy thoughts.

Apparently all are worried about the imminent start of the big war.

There is no other reason, that is, the news that Xiaozuo sent back from Jingzhao Mansion is worrying. It is not that the Meng Yuan has gathered many large troops in Guanzhong, but that Kublai Khan and the Mongol generals of Jingzhaofu have already left. And his whereabouts are unknown. At present, those who remain in Jingzhao Mansion are Wang Moge of Henan in Dawanhu, Shaanxi, and in addition to a small number of Mongolian troops, the defenders are the Wang family army from Longyou and the Han army of Yelu Baotong from Shanxi.

Kublai Khan abandoned Jingzhao Mansion and fled?

Including Li Pu himself, a cadre of civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty. No one dares to think of such a good thing. That's Kublai Khan! How could it be so light to admit defeat? Moreover, there are 100,000 Mongolian elites under Kublai Khan, and the combat power is still higher than Li Pu's 50,000 soldiers. It is to close the soldiers and horses of the Han Marquis of the North and the Southern Song Dynasty Domain, which are dependent on Li Pu from all walks of life, and the victory or defeat is also between five and five......

Before, Kublai Khan only brought 500 people and dared to fight for the life of Ali Buge. Now that he has an army of 100,000, how can he willingly abandon the Central Plains?

Since Kublai Khan would not retreat, where did he and his 100,000-strong army hide? That's 100,000 people and three riders. The elite of the Mongols who can travel hundreds of miles a day and then immediately go into battle! Moreover, Beiming also sent a message, saying that the Great Song Dynasty had provided Meng Yuan with a large number of H medicine weapons!

Li Pu's body suddenly trembled. Then he commanded in a deep voice: "Xuanshi Tianze, Wang Wentong, Tian Shidu, and Li Xiong will meet you." ”

……

Li Pu's car was wide, and after Shi Tianze, Wang Wentong, Tian Shidu and Li Xiong got into the car, they all sat opposite Li Pu. The car continued to move forward without delaying the trip.

"What's the news?"

Seeing a few people sitting still, Li Pu opened his mouth and asked. Li Pu is good at using the room, and has arranged detailed works in Lin'an, Yanjing and Jingzhao Mansion, and also has an intelligence network in Mingdu.

The Song court sent several ministers back to their hometowns to hold group exercises, and also promoted Jiang Wanli to the knighthood in recognition of his contributions to running group exercises in Jiangxi. In addition, Lin'an has recently set up a ritual society to promote retribution. It is necessary to restore the Zhou rites in the Southern Dynasty, practice feudalism, and share the world with the king and the scholars......"

The answer to the question was Wang Wentong, who is now Li Pu's Zhongshu Ling, that is, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, whose power is extremely great, and he is a military and government agent. Anyone who really knows the inside story of the Li family knows that Li Pu is actually a person with little ideas, and most of his policies are from Wang Wentong and exterminator Tai Yang Miaozhen.

"What are they?" Li Pu shook his head and interrupted, "The affairs of the Song Kingdom are up to him, let's talk about Jingzhao Mansion." ”

"Jingzhao Mansion?" Wang Wentong spread his hands, "It's still the same, nothing has changed...... Even Tongguan and Wuguan have not been renovated and armed. ”

"Not armed?" Li Pu was stunned, "What does Kublai Khan mean?" Do you want to bring my army into Guanzhong? ”

He glanced at Shi Tianze. Now the most capable general under the Tang Dynasty is the general of the Henan Road march.

"It's hard to say, maybe it's an empty plan." Shi Tianze shook his head, stroked his beard and asked, "Your Majesty, if Kublai Khan asked people to open the gate of Tongguan and did not let a single soldier go, would you dare to lead troops into the pass?" ”

"Don't dare." Li Pu replied simply.

"Then does King Chen Ming dare?" Shi Tianze asked again.

Li Pu sighed: "He...... He was going to lead his troops to Kunshan, and Kublai Khan had already deployed heavy troops in Tongguan! ”

Shi Tianze smiled and said, "What the emperor said is extremely true. The difficulties encountered by the Tang Dynasty today are not where Kublai Khan went, but that the Tang army is not as capable as the Yuan army! ”

That's the big truth. Now among the four kingdoms of Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming, the strongest combat effectiveness of the army is, of course, the Ming, followed by the Yuan, and the Tang again, and the weakest is definitely the Song. Therefore, if the Tang Dynasty wants to restore the Central Plains, the biggest difficulty is not that it cannot find Kublai Khan, but that it cannot defeat Kublai Khan.

"But the Yuan soldiers were pinned down by the Ming army." Wang Wentong interjected.

"Yes," Shi Tianze nodded and said with a smile, "Xianggong is right. Among the three kingdoms of Tang, Yuan, and Ming, the strongest is actually Yuan, although the Yuan soldiers are not as strong as the Ming army, but they are superior in numbers. The Yuan soldiers are many and strong, the Ming army is few and fine, and the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are more than those of the Northern Ming, but they are not as strong as the Meng Yuan. If Datang or Beiming are allowed to go to war with Dayuan alone, I am afraid there is no chance of winning. ”

"So Kublai Khan's trouble is to deal with me and Chen Dexing at the same time?"

"The emperor is wise," Shi Tianze stroked his beard, thought for a while, and said, "Kublai Khan's best strategy must be to defeat one of the Northern Ming or Tang Dynasty first." ”

"So he opened the Tongguan and Wuguan passes, trying to lure my army into the pass?"

Shi Tianze frowned slightly, as long as this Li Pu is not involved in the military, his brain is actually very clear. But when it comes to war, it is inevitable that you will be confused. As long as Kublai Khan is not crippled, it is unlikely that he will make such a deployment - defeat Li Pu, and there is no way to recover the land of Shandong for the time being, and let Chen Dexing take Yanyun. So what will happen next, you can understand it with your ass. Chen Dexing will effortlessly collect Li Pu's power in Shandong! When the time comes, Kublai Khan will not cry to death?

"Your Majesty, it's hard to talk about this...... Maybe Kublai Khan opened the door in the middle of the door to play tricks, and sneaked the main force out of the Great Wall and went to deal with the Northern Ming Dynasty first. ”

"Deal with Beiming first?" Li Pu frowned, "How much does Kublai Khan have to win?" ”

"There is still a chance to win," Shi Tianze said, "and regardless of the tens of thousands of Han troops under Yanyun's Dawanhu Mansion, it is Kublai Khan's 100,000 Mongol troops plus the 100,000 troops of the four kings of the Mongol host, which is enough for King Chen Ming." ”

200,000 Mongol troops! Since the rise of the Mongol Empire, there has never been such a powerful Mongol legion!

Li Pu's face was solemn, "If Chen Dexing's army is defeated...... These 200,000 Mongols are going to ......."

"It's coming at us!" Li Xiong muttered in a low voice.

Li Pu's general Tian Shidu also said: "Your Majesty, then we can't go to Guanzhong!" ”

Li Pu looked at Shi Tianze. Shi Tianze stroked his beard and said: "You can garrison Mengjin, rebuild the pontoon bridge to connect the north and south, and make the northern expedition to the east of the river, and then send Shanxi to appease the heroes of the Three Jin Dynasty." At the same time, watch the battle of Yanyun. ”

"That level is ......"

Shi Tianze said: "If Kublai Khan's army is ambushed in Guanzhong, it will be difficult for our Tang army to win." If Kublai Khan sneaked outside the fortress to attack the Northern Ming Dynasty...... My Tang Dynasty should wait for the opportunity to go north to help and break Mongolia in the land of Youyan! If the war drags on for a long time, my Datang just took the opportunity to win the hearts of the people and collect all the heroes of the north for their own use. ”

Li Pu looked at Wang Wentong again, Wang Wentong frowned, and was thinking hard, "Your Majesty, Weichen also agrees with General Manager Shi's construction, but is it too far away from Yanyun to Mengjin?" It is better to go north to Taiyuan and join forces with Li Yinuge and Dai Quxue. ”

Shi Tianze asked: "Then who will guard Luoyang?" What if Kublai Khan ambushed his troops? ”

Wang Wentong said: "You can leave the prince to guard Luoyang." ”

Li Pu's crown prince Li Yanjian was not born to Wang Wentong's daughter, so he was naturally not in the same group as Wang Wentong. Wang Wentong kept him to guard Luoyang, but he didn't want him to make more contributions.

He then said: "You can also let King Zhao gather troops and horses in Yidu, go out of Jinan, and make a trend of going north at any time." ”

"This ......" Li Pu frowned deeply, he didn't want his Tang Dynasty to also have a Qin King Li Shimin. The crown prince still has to be enlisted. Xiong'er, why don't you take Zuo Wuwei to stay in Luoyang! (To be continued......)