After Paspa's suggestion, Kuoduan seemed to be enlightened, and understood how to deal with the Chifeng army and the Southern Song court.

So he ordered Zhang Rou and Shi Tianze to be stationed in Guide Mansion and Henan Mansion respectively, and contained Meng Hui and Zhao Kui, in case these two took advantage of the Northern Expedition at this time. In the second case, he led the army from Qingyang Mansion to the south to attack Jingzhao Mansion, making it difficult for the Chifeng army to move, and the other was to make Ba Si Pa enter Tibet to gather Tibetans and invade Chengdu from the Tibetan Plateau, so that he could restrain Yu Yu and others and make them unable to separate.

Later, he secretly selected candidates and prepared to start his blockade of the Red Phoenix Army and assassinate Meng Hui, Zhao Kui, Yu Yu and other strong people.

Such a thing did not work for a short time, but it required a considerable amount of time to prepare, and it is difficult to fully describe the complexity of it, and by the time all the troops had been deployed, it was already in the middle of June.

And Shi Tianze has restrained his soldiers and horses since he was stationed in Guide Mansion, except for daily drills, there are not many actions, that is, the Red Phoenix Army has repeatedly come to provoke, he also closed the city gate and never went out, just sent his people to swim around, I don't know what the plan is.

No, at today's time, Song Zijie led a group of cavalry and prepared to visit Hezhong Mansion.

This Hezhong Mansion, whose real name is Puzhou, is only called Hezhong Mansion because it is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, because it is close to the Yellow River, so it has always been a place for Cao Yun to turn, and the famous Tongguan is sixty miles south of Hezhong Mansion, it only takes less than half a day to arrive, and it is the forefront of the fight against the Red Phoenix Army.

Today, Song Zijie went here to learn about the situation of the Red Phoenix Army.

But when the cavalry was halfway there, he saw the horses' hooves and figures in the distance, which were mixed with the sound of artillery, which was clearly a fierce battle.

Song Zijie immediately shouted with all his strength: "The thief dares?" The horsewhip in his hand shook in response, and he immediately let the war horse under him move his hooves and rushed towards the battle place in the distance. The people in the distance also seemed to notice, and immediately staggered their figures and fled into the distance.

When he was about to chase after him, he saw a general in the center of the crowd of soldiers, like stars and moons.

Seeing Song Zizhen coming, the general breathed a sigh of relief and laughed loudly: "Fortunately, there are righteous people to help, otherwise I am afraid that we will die here." ”

"Are those people the Red Phoenix Army?" Song Zijie asked at this time.

"That's right. And besides them, who else would dare to attack our Mongolian army?" The man nodded, and after bowing to Song Zijie Yingying, he said: "In Xiatahai, I have seen the envoy. It's just that I didn't get to you in time, so please forgive me for my incompetence. As he spoke, he was already bent on his knees, and he was about to squat down.

When Song Zijie saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the whole Tahai up, and said: "The general is righteous, once again guard the Hezhong Mansion to ensure that the Chifeng Army will not threaten the peace of our dynasty, how can such a meritorious junior be worshiped by you? Seeing the burning marks on the tree pole next to him, he asked, "It's just that those people should be the Red Phoenix Army, otherwise how can they fight with you?"

"Yes! Since I was stationed here, these annoying cavalry have repeatedly crossed the Yellow River and created chaos in my territory. As a last resort, I had no choice but to personally lead the cavalry and lay a trap with the intention of annihilating all the opponents. Unexpectedly, this plan was discovered by the enemy for some reason, so that I fell into this trap, and if you hadn't suddenly appeared, I am afraid that I would have become a corpse on this ground. Tahai looked embarrassed, obviously apprehensive about the previous battle.

At that time, in order to consolidate the internal base area, the Chifeng Army also stopped military operations after occupying Tongguan, and focused all its energy on internal construction.

However, in order to prevent a sneak attack by the Mongols, he often sent his elite cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy situation near Hezhong Province.

After Song Zijie heard about it, he realized: "So that's the case." ”

"That's right. In terms of horsemanship, those cavalry were far inferior to us, but the guns in their hands were very powerful, but they were beyond our ability to fight. Otherwise, how could I lose so many people under my command?" With a bitter look on his face, Tahai looked at the corpses lying on the ground, his eyes full of anger.

These brave battles, who have grown up on horseback since they were children, are also good at drawing bows and arrows, but in the blink of an eye, bows and arrows have been replaced by firearms, but it is difficult for them to exert their former strength, and they can only become corpses again.

Thinking of those compatriots who died, Tahai felt furious and wanted to completely destroy the entire Tongguan.

But after the previous attack by Zhang Rou, there was already a force of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed at Tongguan, and there were thousands of artillery pieces under his command.

After hearing this, Song Zijie also looked up slightly at the far south, and the continuous mountains seemed to be a majestic city wall in front of him, which made people even more afraid. As the only military fortress that can step into Hanzhong, Tongguan is also like the stopper, blocking it completely, making any external attacks ineffective, and not a single soldier inside can be moved.

He looked at this scene, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said, "But since I came here, I will definitely not let the other party continue to be arrogant." ”

"I hope so. Ta Hai's brows furrowed, as if he was a little annoyed.

Since the two met in advance, they worked together to prevent the follow-up actions of the Chifeng Army, and when they returned to Hezhong Mansion, it was already evening. Seeing that Song Zijie and the others were hungry, Ta Hai had already arranged for the city chef to clean up a table of wine and food, so that everyone could have a good meal, but Song Zijie was worried, so he excused himself after a few bites, returned to the house and lit a few candles, came to the archives of Hezhong Mansion, and carefully checked the information collected by Ta Hai about the Red Phoenix Army.

In the middle of the night, the stars in the sky are sparse, and only a bright moon hangs high.

Song Zijie realized that it was already late at night, so he planned to fall asleep, but he caught a glimpse of a red light suddenly appearing in the distance.

After staring at it, Song Zijie was shocked in his heart, and secretly thought: "Is it artillery? Could it be that the Red Phoenix Army is attacking again?" Thinking of Tahai's embarrassed appearance during the day, he didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately took off the clothes on the hanger next to him and put them on, and carried the light gong towards the distance.

After walking for several miles, when he heard the "booming" cannon sound, Song Zijie heard the sound of the tide.

"Is it the Yellow River? Could it be that the battle took place on the Yellow River?"

Condensing Yuan Gong, Song Zijie's eyes were like torches, sweeping from the wide Yellow River, and when he saw Chimang reappearing, he immediately noticed that above the Yellow River, there were one small boat after another, this small boat was very simple, most of them were only small boats that were only a few feet long, and some were just bamboo rafts that tied bamboo together, but on the boats and bamboo rafts, there were more than a dozen people, and there were too many people to occupy almost all the space on the boat.

And they're rowing their oars hard, trying to escape from here!

"Boom!"

There was another cannon sound, and a bamboo raft collapsed instantly, and all the people on it fell into the river, floating and sinking, and soon disappeared.

"Who's doing this?"

Song Zijie was stunned, and following the sound of the cannon, he noticed that a warship was coming in the distance, the warship was about ten zhang long, and it was loaded with dozens of cannons, and the artillery was also moved to aim at the small boats above the Yellow River.

"Is it the Mongolian army?"

With his eyes slightly condensed, Song Zijie immediately noticed that the flag on the warship was the familiar flag of the Mongolian army, and his voice suddenly rose: "Who dares to pretend to be our army here and do this wolf-hearted and dog-lung act?" As soon as the words fell, his body shot into the Yellow River like electricity, only to see a light under his feet, splashing ripples, and sweeping towards the warship in the distance.

On the warship, those soldiers saw that someone was actually relying on the void, and their faces were shocked, and they hurriedly took out their hand cannons and bows and crossbows, but when everyone reacted and pulled the trigger, Song Zijie had already appeared on the warship, and with a wave of his hand, he blocked all the bullets and crossbow arrows in front of him, and immediately landed on the warship.

But when he gathered his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, his figure was stunned again, and he opened his mouth and asked, "Tahai, what are you doing?"

"Song Zijie?" Ta Hai was also stunned, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "I thought you were the king who was responsible for guarding Tongguan." Fu You's smile regained his smile, waved his hand to the soldiers next to him to put away their weapons, and then walked towards Song Zijie, and said, "But since you are here again today, then help me destroy these people." The tiger's eyes swept away the people on the Yellow River, but the words in his mouth were scarlet.

Song Zijie's face was extremely serious, and he asked in a low voice, "Are they?

"Well, no!" Ta Hai looked stunned, then shook his head and replied.

Song Zijie's expression was even more cold, and he asked again: "Since it's not the Red Phoenix Army, why are you killing them here?"

"They are the ones who have fled, and because they have been bewitched by the red thief, they are ready to flee to Guanzhong. If I let these people enter Tongguan, the strength of the Red Thief will increase by one point, and if we want to annihilate the Red Phoenix Army, we will have to pay even more price. On the orders of Chahan, it is naturally impossible for me to allow these fleeing people to step into the pass and become one of the Red Thieves. Tahai frowned and began to explain.

It's just that the more he explained, Song Zijie's face became more and more embarrassed, from bright red before, to colorless afterward, and after listening to it, his face had already lost its blood color and turned pale.

"How is this possible? Why did the general send me?"

Thinking about Shi Tianze's previous order, Song Zijie was already a little skeptical, and even began to doubt whether he should make this trip.

"The purpose of sending you to Hezhong Mansion today is to create chaos and completely control Tongguan in our hands. Only in this way will we be able to completely block the Red Thief and make it difficult for him to obtain external resources. ”

In every word, he was still elated at the beginning, thinking that it was the time for him to make meritorious contributions, but looking at what Tahai is doing now, he is afraid that there are more things hidden in it, and many of them are terrifying.