"But Great Khan, if we don't stop the thief Chen now, he won't go to Henan, and I'm afraid he won't let go of the people of Hebei. He has now plundered 1440,000 people, if he plunders Shunde, Guangping, Daming and other roads, and then enters the canal eastward, and plunders the north along the way, I am afraid that 300,000 people can also plunder it! ”

Brother Tou has his own worries, the population of Yanyun Hebei is always more than 2 million, Chen Dexing has already obtained 500,000 in Yanjing and more than 100,000 in Pingluan, and more than 200,000 in Baoding Road and Hejian Road are also surnamed Chen. If another 300,000 were taken from the rest of Hebei, the total would be around 1.2 million.

Counting the population of Liaodong, Haidong, and Taiwan (including Zhoushan), there are 2 million people in the Northern Ming Dynasty. In addition, there is a Goryeo with a population of more than 2 million attached to the Northern Ming Dynasty, and now Chen Dexing can use the population of more than 4 million!

This number was only a prefecture-level city in later generations, but in the 13th century, a country with a population of more than four million was a large country. And there is also a male lord like Chen Dexing to rule, at most ten years, the Great Mongolia will have to be driven out of the Central Plains!

Kublai Khan snorted coldly, waved his hand and said: "There are many people and many mouths, how much rice and grain do 1.2 million mouths get to feed?" And let him plunder, when I raise troops again in the spring of Ming and mislead him to farm, the Southern Dynasty is also afraid of Chen thieves, and will not sell rice to him. ”

Can't sell rice? Brother Tou shook his head, not quite convinced. Jia Yidao may issue a ban, but the merchants of the Southern Dynasty will listen? Who doesn't know that Chen Dexing controls the sea, and all Song businessmen who want to do sea trade can't offend Chen Dexing!

Kublai Khan saw Brother Tou's suspicious expression, and smiled: "It's not okay to let Liu Xiaoyuan go alone in this matter, but there is Pu Shougeng, a profiteer." You can't go wrong! Chen Dexing had no way to buy a large amount of rice and grain from the Southern Dynasties. This food is off. At least three years can tie up Chen Dexing! With these three years, Great Mongolia will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory! ”

The head brother nodded suspiciously. Kublai Khan has recently missed a series of failures, and his popularity has been greatly reduced, and even the head brother who has always trusted him has doubts in his heart.

"Great Khan, where are we going next?"

"Not going anywhere! Let the warriors have a good rest in Zhending City, eat a good meal, and prepare for the big battle! ”

"The big war? And with whom? ”

Kublai Khan smiled smugly and said, "Of course it's with Li Tan!" I didn't want to kill him, but he sent it himself! Cowardly Xue, who went to Jingcheng Pass to inquire about the news, contacted Baturu. Li Tan has been lured to the vicinity of Niangzi Pass by Baturu, this is a godsend! ”

"Li Tan has arrived at Niangzi Pass!?" Brother Tou Yan snorted coldly. Was Li Tan "lured"? No three-year-old child would believe this. Most of the time it was Baturu who was defeated in Taiyuan and was chased and killed by Li Tan to Niangzi Pass. No wonder Xue Chanhan didn't dare to chase Chen Dexing, he wanted to concentrate on defeating Li Tan first! Otherwise, let Chen and Li join forces to attack, and the more than 50,000 Mongolians here will have to go to see Changshengtian!

Kublai Khan suddenly laughed: "That Li Tan has always been too cautious, but this time I don't know what's wrong, but I actually came out again." I have already planned to fight this thief in front of Jingcheng Pass, and then I will go to deal with Chen Dexing after breaking through Li Tai...... In fact, the Chen thief is not remarkable, but it is because of the sharpness of the H weapon and the sturdiness of the steel armor that he has benefited for a while. Just give me a few years. Whatever Chen Dexing has, I will also have! And there will be more than he has, and when the time comes, it will be the time when my Great Mongolia will destroy the Song Dynasty! ”

……

At this moment. Chen Dexing's "army of refugees" had reached the time for a big break and ready for breakfast. At this time, the ordinary people in the Central Plains usually had two meals a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and dinner was not opened. Only the families of wealthy officials eat three meals, four meals and five meals a day. It's all a lot of oil and water, and I'm not afraid of getting sick from eating.

But since Chen Dexing led an army. One of his team's meals is three meals a day. Up to now, the food standard of the Ming army is very high. Each person implements the food standard of "half a pound of noodles, meat and vegetables" every day, and waits until the strictest implementation - unlike the Southern Song Army, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army have always been treated more equally in terms of food, at first it was for the need for brainwashing, and now it is because there are also a large number of nobles and nobles among the soldiers, although they are soldiers, but their identities are the same nobles!

As for the refugees who were coerced by Chen Dexing, they have also eaten three meals a day in the past few days, and they are also 24 or 22 meters of noodles, but the meat is a little less - if these refugees are not fed, how can they get the way?

At this time, Chen Dexing regained his style when he had just led the troops, and if he didn't eat, he, the master of the three armies, would not eat. It's not that he's worried that his generals won't be able to eat well, but that he's worried about the food supply for the refugees. So when it was time for dinner, he rode his horse back and forth around the camp. Zhu Sijiu and Chen Qianyi, two little brothers, followed by horses.

All the refugees have been organized, and Ding Zhuang has drawn out to form a team of 1,000 people and a team of 100 people, each team of 100 people has its own food unit, and they sit around the cauldron to eat there.

The old and weak were organized into households, forming thousands of households, hundreds of households, and temporarily appointed the heads of thousands of households and the heads of hundreds of households. The backbone of the Heavenly Taoist Sect took the opportunity to brainwash these refugees and propagated the Heavenly Taoist Sect's set of principles that light prevails over darkness and the Han people defeat the Tartars. But these refugees are not uninformed Liaodong wild tartars, how can they believe in this set? If you don't believe in Mingjiao at that time and have read some books of sages, it is naturally difficult to be fooled by the backbone of Tiandao. However, with these sticks operating in the middle, it is still possible to gather some believers from among the refugees.

Whether they really believe it, or they want to be opportunistic and make a future. After all, it is beneficial for Chen Dexing to control the refugee team.

Chen Dexing rode on the horse, turned around and smiled at the two people beside him: "This time, thanks to the people and horses of the Heavenly Dao Sect, there is no Zhending Altar, these hundreds of thousands of people, the Lone King can't control it no matter what." By the way, is there any news from Yang Axi? ”

Chen Qianyi is a fair-skinned young man, he is the eldest of the twenty-two brothers in Qionghualou, he is not yet twenty years old this year, and the childishness on his face has not been taken off, but he is already a senior officer in Beiming. Hearing Chen Dexing's question, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "Big brother, Ah Xi's side has only come to report once, and he is fine, and he has not found the Mongolian Tatar brigade, only their horse exploration rangers and the Black Flag horse team have kept in touch." ”

"Haven't seen the Tartar Brigade yet?" Chen Dexing shook his head, his men and horses will be able to enter Shunde City tonight - Shunde Road City is a small city with a population of only 1,000 households, and it has been controlled by the vanguard under the command of Guo Kan - why hasn't Kublai Khan moved south in a big way?

"Not yet," Chen Qianyi said with a smile, "Ah Xi's horse team has been placed ten miles south of Zhending City, and I haven't seen the Tartars go out of the city." It seems that the Tartar is afraid of the eldest brother and does not dare to chase after him. ”

"Don't dare?" Chen Dexing didn't dare to think of such a good thing, the opponent was Kublai Khan and not Jia Nidao, and there was something he didn't dare to do?

"Maybe you want to go around in front of us and block it, right?" Chen Dexing couldn't think of a reason, there were only 2,000 people in the Zhenghei Banner Left Association Horse Team, and they had long been exhausted, and now they could only take turns to dispatch hundreds, and they reluctantly arranged a very thin cordon in the north. It was simply impossible to keep a close watch on the Mongols, who had occupied Zhending.

Therefore, Chen Dexing can only guess Kublai Khan's actions now, and it is naturally easy to make mistakes by guessing. Especially in today's Hebei and Shanxi battlefields, there are still three countries involved, and there are a bunch of large and small warlords, and a random action of any one side may affect the overall situation of the whole child.

Chen Dexing thought for a moment, and finally shook his head and said, "We still have to hurry up and march overnight tonight, and we must go to Shunde Road City no matter what." There is a city to defend, which is always reassuring. ”

……

"Spread my will, march all night tonight, before dark, you must go to Niangzi Pass!"

Sitting on a jujube red high-headed horse, Li Tan raised his head to look at the sky, and it was still the time when the full sun was empty. Today's march was very smooth, and although it walked between the mountain roads, there was almost no resistance along the way, and there was not even an ambush, as if it was not a wartime but a peacetime mobilization of the army.

"Father, it is very likely that Niangziguan has been given up by Baturu, and we can enter Hebei without blood."

Li Yan followed Li Yan on horseback, and he was also complacent. His Jin Wuwei fought very hard in Taiyuan, but his exploits were not small, and the number of heads collected alone exceeded 3,000!

Although these Mongol chiefs were of little use to him, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, a reputation for being warlike would never run away. And that "Li Shimin" (Li Yanguo) is probably still in Jinan and has not moved his nest, right?

Li Tan rubbed his beard, noncommittal. Baturu most likely abandoned Niangzi Pass, if he was Baturu, he would not defend Niangzi Pass, but would quickly jump to the Hebei Plain, and then try to get rid of Chen Dexing's army, and then find a chance to cross the Yellow River.

Just thinking of this, there was a sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and several red-clothed knights galloped over, and when they saw Li Tan's Yellow Dragon Banner, they hurriedly leaned over, and the leading knight turned over and dismounted, bowed to Li Tan and said: "Your Majesty, great joy!" General Tanagami's leading guard has already occupied Niangzi Pass! General Tangami reported that the Mongol Tatars had now retreated to Jingcheng Pass, east of Niangzi Pass. ”

"What?" Li Tan's father and son glanced at each other, both of them were a little strange. Why did Baturu retreat to Jingcheng? If the lady is not guaranteed, can the Jingcheng Pass be saved? But even if he keeps Jingcheng Pass, what's the use? Daming is in the east, Datang is in the west, how long can a well last? (To be continued......)