Among the allies of the Thunderbolts, the Banju Yang clan is related to the Thunderbolts by marriage and is the most reliable force. It's just that although the Banzhou soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and they are absolutely strong in defensive operations and mountain battles, they are not able to attack the fort of Jiancheng or engage in field battles with the Mongolian army, and Ouyang Xuan never wants to see Banzhou suffer a great loss of vitality because of his assistance; Ze Xun and other Yibo forces have few major generals, and it is good to be able to hold their own territory, and they can't be counted on to send troops to help. They allowed the Thunderbolt Army to do business, open mines, and recruit soldiers in the local area, and Ouyang Xuan was already very satisfied.

As for Luzhou Liu Chengsu, he has no friendship, so naturally he will not send troops to help. Yu Xing, who was in charge of Chongqing Prefecture, was the supreme governor of Sichuan, and he should have sent troops to attack the rebel generals, but he had just spent a lot of money to buy the position of the Sichuan envoy, and he was certainly unwilling to risk the defeat of the army and the removal of his official position. You must know that Pu Zhizhi was dismissed from his official position by the Lin'an Imperial Court after the defeat in the Battle of Chengdu. Liu Daer has been his confidant for many years, and he has also honored his money for many years. As long as Liu Daer sends him a large amount of money, he will not attack with all his strength, at most he will make a show to deal with the Lin'an court. For the same reason, even if Zhang Jue and others in Diaoyu City wanted to send troops to aid the Thunderbolt Army, they would be held back by him.

In Cao Zhizhou and Liu Daer's proposal to New York, Jiading is the core of the whole plan. In order to take Jiading, they formulated three strategies. The best strategy is to take advantage of Zhan Wanshou to send someone to kill him on the way to office, and the leaderless Jiading army can be controlled by the two without blood; Zhongce is to set up a Hongmen banquet and launch a surprise attack on the high-level of the Jiading army to wipe them out. After Zan Wanshou takes office, he will inspect the territory everywhere, and he will inevitably go to Meizhou City first, and he will be captured and killed as soon as he enters the city; The next strategy is that the Mongolian army, the Meizhou army, and the Yazhou army will jointly attack Jiading City, as long as Jiading City is broken, its subordinate states and counties can be decided. Although Jiading City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liu Daer already has accomplices in the defenders, and when the time comes, he only needs to open the city gate, and the three-way army will rush in.

In order to cooperate with the actions of Cao Zhizhou and Liu Da'er, Niu Xuan also prepared to contain the Song army in central Sichuan from many aspects. He has contacted the secret Huoli and asked him to move his troops to Pixian County to contain the Thunderbolt army in Guankouzhai and Daojiang. In the competition between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge for the throne, the vast majority of Mongolian generals supported Ali Buge in Mobei, on the one hand, because of the Mongolian tradition of "young sons guarding the stove", Abuligo controlled the vast majority of the Mongolian army, and the strength was stronger than Kublai Khan, on the other hand, Ali Buge adhered to Mongolian traditions, and Kublai Khan, who occupied the Han land, was inclined to Han culture. Niu Xuan is an old fox who is neutral on the surface, but in fact he is biased towards Ali Buge, so the Mongolian generals have a good impression of him.

As a conservative member of the Mongol aristocracy, Mi Zhehuoli was a staunch supporter of Ali Buge. Liu Heima, who was in charge of Chengdu's government affairs, and the generals of the Mongol Han army, such as Yelumaizhu and Jiagu Longgudai, supported Kublai Khan. The political dispute has strained the relationship between the secret Huoli and Liu Heima. The secret Huoli always looked down on the Khitan, Western Xia and Han generals in the Mongol army, but the defeat of Hengyuan Fort gave him face, and a lot of power was transferred to Liu Heima by Meng Ge, which made the secret Huoli extremely hostile to Liu Heima, and the relationship between the two became more tense. Niu Lin had a deep understanding of the current relationship between the two, and he asked the secret to send troops to fill the village, not only to let him gain military merits, but also to prevent him from infighting with Liu Heima.

Niu Xuan also wrote a letter to Qingju City in eastern Sichuan, known as the Nanchong City guard general Qitai Buhua, as Ouyang Xuan called it, and asked him to constantly attack the Song army around Diaoyu City and Chongqing Prefecture. This beggar is not a confidant of Meng Ge, and he likes to plunder and kill. After Meng Ke died in the Battle of Diaoyu City, he led 4,000 elite cavalry to garrison Nanchong to prevent the Song army from counterattacking. Meng Shouge left his last words before his death, after the attack on Diaoyu City, he would slaughter the people in the city, and begging Tai Buhua would tearfully swear to avenge Meng Ge's revenge. He would not have easily quit the army, but now that Niu Lin has been invited, he will naturally increase his attack and plunder.

Among the Mongolian troops stationed in Sichuan, there were also the Mongol and Han armies of Wang Liangchen and Wang Weizheng, and there were also many new annexed troops. On the one hand, he despised the combat power of these people, and on the other hand, he was unwilling to deal with these foreign races who openly supported Kublai Khan, and did not send anyone to contact them. In Niu Ling's view, the value of soldiers lies in the refinement rather than in the many, and the Mongolian army can shock overseas, and lies in the cavalry that is fierce and good at fighting and extremely mobile, and can run long distances. Therefore, he set his sights on the battlefield outside Sichuan, and sent envoys to Liupan Mountain in Longyou and Dali in the south, and asked the local Mongolian generals stationed in Tun to send troops, on the one hand, to contain the Song army on the Sichuan side, and on the other hand, to attack the weakest areas of the Song army with the "Han belly" strategy.

After Meng Ge was killed in battle, the 40,000 elite cavalry led by him did not return to Mobei, but some stayed in Sichuan and Guanzhong, and more than 20,000 people stayed in Liupan Mountain. The general who commanded this cavalry was called Hun Duhai, and he was a supporter of Ali Buge. He was sure that he would agree to send cavalry south to Songzhou and Weimao. On the one hand, because when these two khans were vying for the throne, Hun Duhai would inevitably use this to win over Niu Lu to support Ali Buge, and on the other hand, the cavalry of Widow Cliff was completely annihilated, and Hun Duhai's subordinates, with his character of revenge, he would definitely not let go of the opportunity for revenge.

The envoy sent by the new state to Dali sought the support of the famous Mongolian general Wuliang Hetai. He was still the son of the Mongol war god who conquered Eastern Europe, and he had made great achievements in many expeditions to the west. When Meng Ge led an army of 100,000 to attack Diaoyu City for a long time, Wuliang Hetai took 3,000 cavalry and 10,000 Dali barbarian soldiers, starting from Dali, all the way through Guangxi, Hunan to Hubei Ezhou, all the way to attack the city and plunder the land, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of Song soldiers and civilians, and finally successfully crossed the river to meet Kublai Khan's troops, and its command ability was really strong. Niu Ling asked Wuliang Hetai to drive the Dali barbarians to harass Banzhou and Miaojiang, sent cavalry from the grassland to raid the archery furnace, and joined up with the Sichuan Ximeng army in Ya and Lizhou.

In addition to military equipment, New Zealand has not given up on the political offensive. He also sent an envoy to Chongqing Mansion to recruit the Thunderbolt army. It's just that the first two groups of envoys he sent were mistaken for spies by the guards of the three crossings, and they couldn't help but say a bombardment. The third group of New Zealand emissaries came in with white flags - the new annexes reminded them to negotiate with the Thunderbolts and to carry the white flag, otherwise they would be attacked. The envoy was taken to Ouyang Xuan after being searched, and as soon as he finished speaking, he replied, and the result was obvious. Ouyang Xuan asked the envoy to convey to the envoy that it was impossible for the Thunderbolt army to surrender to the Mongol army, and there could not even be peace between the two sides, unless the Mongol army withdrew from the Han land and compensated for the losses.

When Niu Xuan got the reply, he really couldn't understand that the conditions he offered were so generous, but Ouyang Xuan categorically refused. Niu Xuan promised that if the Thunderbolt army surrendered, not only could it be the current land, but even the entire western Sichuan land would be under the jurisdiction of the Thunderbolt army, and Ouyang Xuan would also become the pacification envoy of Chengdu Road. Speaking of such a high-ranking position, Niu Lin did not have the right to promise, but he knew that the Thunderbolt Army only used firearms as a bargaining chip, whether it was Ali Buge or Kublai Khan, he would fulfill his promise.