Shanxi, about 20 miles east of the city of Pingdingzhou, in a hastily built military horse camp, there is also a rather tired army resting.

This so-called camp is also grassy. None of the fences have been set up. He just tied some deer barricades with spears and placed them haphazardly as supports.

In the camp, the tents were not neatly arranged, and each tent was stuffed with several times as many people, and it was crowded. The smell in the tent was terrible, but the sergeants inside were just asleep.

Most of these sergeants wore the red jackets of the Eastern Tang Army, and were obviously pursuers under the command of Li Pu. However, there are also people who are dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, and there is no leather armor under their heads, some people have a helmet in their arms, and some people do not even have a helmet - they are all sons or vassals of Shanxi Haoqiang who joined along the way. Shanxi is mountainous and the terrain is complex, which is not conducive to the cavalry, but it is conducive to the common people to hide. Therefore, during the Mongol invasion, the powerful forces were well maintained. The stronger ones are often given the governors of a state and county, which is actually a division of one side, and the smaller ones occupy several mountains and are the same kings and hegemons.

However, a peasant who does not want to be a landlord is not a good peasant, and a strong man who does not want to be a warlord and an official is not a good peasant!

Therefore, seeing that Taiyuan has won and lost, what is there to hesitate about? Hurry up and take refuge in Datang, and make a founding hero in the future! Therefore, Li Pu set out from Taiyuan and pursued all the way, but the soldiers and horses were fighting more and more! When he left Taiyuan, he only took more than 30,000 people with him, and now he has no less than 70,000 people!

This Tang Emperor estimated that when his army crossed the Taihang Mountain, 100,000 horses would be able to make it up! If you can get in touch with Chen Dexing. It was not impossible for the two families to fight side by side and eliminate the Mongols who invaded Henan.

The problem now is that Chen Dexing may ask for more benefits! Perhaps it will be asked to the east of Taihang. Yellow River - the land of Hebei north of the Daqing River (a river formed by the eastern section of the original Yellow River after the Yellow River seized Huai into the sea......

If Chen Dexing really makes this request. Li Pu was also ready to grit his teeth and accept it. After all, defeating Mongolia is the top priority, and as for Chen Dexing and the Great Song Dynasty, they can only be dealt with slowly in the future.

Maybe he doesn't have to think about this problem in his lifetime, after all, the Central Plains has suffered too heavy losses in these decades of war, and he can't be relieved without decades of recuperation.

Just when Li Pu was thinking about how to practice benevolent government after the war and rest with the people. There was a commotion outside his tent, and then he heard another person shouting: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." ”

Then I saw the curtain of the big tent lifted, and a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old man walked in with a happy face, it was Li Pu's prince Li Yanjian.

"Father. Great joy, great joy! Li Yanjian didn't have time to salute, so he shouted the good news to Li Pu.

"Big joy? Where does the joy come from? Li Pu looked at his son and suddenly thought of something, "Isn't there news about the east side of Taihang Mountain?" Have you contacted Chen Dexing? ”

Li Yanjian just shook his head and said, "There is no need to contact Chen Dexing, there is better news!" Wang Dechen surrendered to us! ”

"Who?"

"Wang Dechen! Gongchang Wang Dechen! ”

"What?" Li Pu was startled and stood up suddenly, "Isn't it a miscommunication?" The territory of the Wang family can be at the foot of Liupan Mountain. If he dares to rebel, Kublai Khan still hasn't killed the nine clans of the Wang family? ”

"Kublai Khan can't punish Wang's nine clans!" Someone outside the big tent suddenly answered loudly, and then there was a sound of clothes and armor, and a Longxi man strode into the big tent. When he saw Li Pu, he was going to bow down and kowtow. Li Pu immediately stopped him: "What kind of gift did Brother Shunfu do?" Get up and talk quickly...... Brother Shun Fu, how did you come in person? Is there something going on in Hebei? ”

The person who came in was Wang Dechen, that is, Brother Wang Tian (Brother Tian's name was given by Brother Meng). listened to Li Pu's question. He smiled bitterly: "The emperor is wise, the Zhending Mansion has now been occupied by King Chen Ming." What do you think Kublai Khan can do with his younger brother? ”

Li Puteng stood up suddenly, his eyes like lightning. stared at Wang Dechen deadly, and only spit out two words: "Really? ”

"How not really!" Wang Dechen said, "I got the news the night before yesterday, and a few anti-Yuan officials from Zhending Mansion ran into the Niangzi Pass!" The younger brother personally asked them, King Chen Ming's army entered the city of Zhending Mansion three days ago, and there were always thirty or forty thousand soldiers! ”

Li Pu's face had a complicated expression, he walked a few steps in the big tent, looked back and said to Wang Dechen: "Brother Shunfu, how many people do you still have in your hands?" How many people are there in Baturu? Can they still fight? ”

Wang Dechen arched his hand and replied: "Don't hide it from the emperor, the people and horses brought by the minister to Shanxi have suffered heavy losses, and now there are still 3,000 people left who can fight, but they are all elites in a hundred battles!" As for the Baturu hands...... If you don't count the three thousand ministers, there are still twenty-three or four thousand, half of whom are Mongol hosts, and the defeated army has no good swords and armor, and is not very resistant to war. If the emperor sends elite troops quickly, he will definitely be able to win a big victory. ”

Li Pu's face habitually appeared with a hesitant and thoughtful expression. Li Yanjian knows his father's temperament best, and he has to think about big things repeatedly for a long time, which is really not the character of competing for power in troubled times.

The prince of the Tang Dynasty stomped his feet and said: "Father, if the Tang Dynasty still wants the land of Hebei, it cannot be postponed any longer." If the Ming Kingdom has Hebei, I am afraid that it will be difficult to say who this China belongs to! ”

Li Pu took a breath of cool air, this is the truth! Chen Dexing wants to have the land of Hebei and Yanyun, whether it is population, army or financial resources, it will be far better than the Tang Dynasty, is he still willing to be a 'Liao Lord'?

"Father, don't hesitate, hurry up and march into the army, no matter what, we have to drive our 70,000 troops to Zhending City! Otherwise, my father's more than 30 years of hard work will be in vain! ”

Li Pu stood up suddenly, looked back at his son, and nodded heavily: "Yes!" You have to do your best to drive the army to the east of Taihang Mountain! Yan Jian, quickly draft a decree for me, and ask Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou, and Wang Wentong to lead the troops out of Xinkou to appease the heroes of northern Jin, and then to recruit soldiers in Feihukou. ”

To the east of Feihukou is Yizhou, and to the east of Yizhou is Yanjing! Li Pu's deployment was to threaten Yanjing with Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou's subordinates. He annexed the east of Taihang again, echoing with Li Yanguo's headquarters in Jinan, so as to force Chen Dexing to retreat to Yanyun.

Kublai Khan is likely to have been defeated now, without Kublai Khan and the tens of thousands of elites around Kublai Khan, Mongolia will not be able to hold the Central Plains, and it is already a great luck to be able to return to the Hetao through Guanzhong. And the Song Kingdom is vulnerable, and the world in the future will not be Tang Jiming...... At this moment, Datang gritted his teeth and wanted to compete with Chen Ming!

And Chen Ming's master, Chen Dexing, did not have the intention of competing for the world with his father-in-law Lao Taishan at this time. Because he knew that Kublai Khan's army was behind his ass, and his "army of refugees" had grown to 1780,000 by the time he left Zhending. There are a lot of people, but there are only 30,000 or 40,000 people who can fight, and the 14,000 people he brought out from Yanjing really have combat effectiveness.

However, the number of 1780,000 is not completely useless, at least the momentum is huge, and walking on the Great Plain of Hebei is like a torrent without a head and tail! If you meet a more timid opponent, you will be scared away. Historically, every peasant uprising in ancient China used this tactic of coercing the people to gain momentum. However, if you only know that you are coerced, you will not organize and use it, and you will not have a reliable base area, and there will definitely be no good results in the end. Fortunately, Chen Dexing has both organization and territory.

In addition to the momentum, there is also an advantage of coercing the people, that is, whenever there is a battle, the people can be driven to wear down the opponent, and their own elites can wait in the rear - wait until the enemy is exhausted, and then wave the army to cover the kill. This method was what Kublai Khan, who had just entered the burned city of Zhending, was worried about.

Yes, Zhending City has been burned to the ground! Except for the surrounding walls, there are no intact buildings inside. As for the arsonist, it is not someone else, it is Chen Dexing, who keeps saying that he is Renjun.

Last time, I set fire to Dinghai Port in Mingzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then burned Haijin Town on Yanjing Road, and now I have burned Huahua Zhending Mansion again, and I am really a big benevolent monarch!

However, setting fire to the city is a must! If you don't burn down other people's houses, who is willing to lose their good homes and follow thousands of miles?

Standing at the head of Zhending City, staring at the devastated city for a long time, Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, suddenly snorted coldly, as if to express the depression in his heart. was really depressed, originally he wanted to burn and plunder his tens of thousands of Mongolian troops in Zhending City! Who knows, but let Chen Dexing, the thief, take the lead!

"Great Khan, let me lead the men and horses to chase after you!" Brother Wanhu, the head of the household, walked up to the city gate tower with a gloomy face, and knelt down on one knee at the Mongolian Great Khan. "The Chen thief plundered more than 100,000 people, and he only traveled twenty or thirty miles a day, and a certain man and horse could catch up in a day and a night!"

Kublai Khan glanced at him, "What about after catching up?" There are at least twenty or thirty thousand elites around Chen Thief! Even if the 50,000 troops here are all gone, they may not have a chance of winning! ”

"But the Great Khan, a good and decent Zhending Mansion is ruined like this, if Chen Thief is allowed to make trouble, I am afraid that Shunde, Guangping, Daimyo, and other roads will have to make him ruined. What if he crosses the Yellow River again? ”

"Crossing the river?" Kublai Khan snorted, "No! Chen thief finally has some women's kindness! If I command the army, I will fight all the way into Henan, and there will be no grass left wherever I pass! If this is the case, our Mongols will not be able to gain a foothold in Henan, and my great khan will come to an end. ”

It doesn't matter if you lose Yanyun, Hebei, or Shanxi, Mongolia doesn't care about the land of the Han family, but the property of the Han people. Therefore, it didn't matter if Kublai Khan lost some territory, but if he couldn't grab enough goods to reward the 200,000 Mongol warriors who followed him, his Great Khan would really not be able to do it. (To be continued......)