"Your Majesty, why did you ask us to come here?"
King Jinlun took the towel handed to him by the maid beside him and wiped the sweat off his head... He had just tested the skills of Nimoxing, Yin Kexi and Ma Guangzuo, and he had to admit that the martial arts masters summoned to the Zhaoxian Hall were indeed capable.
On the star of Nemo, martial arts have reached the peak of the late stage, the level of the Five Supremes. As expected of coming from Tianzhu (ancient India), the birthplace of Buddhist martial arts, he is quite skilled. As for Yin Kexi and Ma Guangzuo, one is in the late stage of acquired martial arts and the other is in the middle stage of acquired martial arts. Their martial arts are just so-so and barely acceptable.
After all, King Jinlun's disciple Dalba is in the late post-natal stage, and Huodu is even a master in the middle post-natal stage. In King Jinlun's eyes, their level is just that of a disciple.
"Yes, Your Highness, the Imperial Master has taught us a lot of Kung Fu. If I continue to study with him for a while, I will definitely be able to break through to the Xiantian realm within three years!"
Nemo Xing also echoed from the side, he really didn't want to come... wouldn't it be great if he could practice martial arts well to break through the innate realm and become a national teacher?
Kublai Khan sighed and motioned for everyone to sit down.
"If it weren't for an urgent matter, I wouldn't have disturbed the heroes' training... It's just that the situation in the army has been too strange these days, and I'm a little helpless. I have no choice but to recruit you to help."
After saying this, Kublai Khan handed the document in his hand to King Jinlun.
"For the past ten days, all the scouts sent out by the Mongol army to gather food and fodder have disappeared... At first, I thought they'd run into some tough obstacles, or perhaps encountered masters from the Great Song martial arts world who had come out of seclusion to ambush them. So, I sent out thousands of cavalrymen to search for them. At one point, there were even 3,000 men per team! However, no matter how many I sent out, none of them returned. Of the 100,000 Mongol troops, nearly 10,000 have already disappeared while searching for the scouts...
Since attacking Song, my army has never encountered such a strange situation, so I would like to ask the heroes to come and ask if there is any way to investigate.
"Oh? Is this true?"
King Jinlun was also shocked. If the Mongol army had tens of thousands of soldiers on the battlefield, they could at least wipe out the 100,000-strong Song army!
This is not an exaggeration. When the Yuan Dynasty was founded, the total army was only 124,000, and the vassal army also had more than 100,000 people! Even after the establishment of the Yuan Empire, the total force was only 1.2 to 1.5 million. This was the army retained during the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty. It fought as far as the Aegean Sea and almost conquered the entire Eurasian continent!
This shows how powerful the Yuan Dynasty soldiers were!
The army led by Kublai Khan now, in addition to leaving more than 70,000 troops to guard the headquarters, also brought 50,000 Mongolian troops and 50,000 vassal troops, all of which are extremely powerful armies. Their purpose is to capture Xiangyang and allow the Mongolian army to advance straight in!
But how could King Jinlun remain unfazed by the unnoticed loss of ten thousand men? Even if he were to kill them himself, it would take at least a whole day and night of sleepless nights, and only if they didn't flee would he be able to do so!
"Have any spies from the Han territory reported back? What about Xiaolongnu, the leader of the Central Plains Wulin, whom I've instructed them to keep an eye on? What's her whereabouts?"
"No……"
Kublai Khan smiled bitterly. "This last piece of information was passed on by a spy at the risk of his life. It's reported that the Beggar Gang of the Great Song Dynasty, for some reason, has completely blocked the Great Song Dynasty's convoys and all personnel heading to the grasslands! No matter who it is, if they don't listen, they will even seize their goods. In serious cases, all members will be slaughtered. No one will be able to pass!"
Furthermore, the Beggars' Sect is conducting a rigorous investigation and crackdown throughout the Song Dynasty to prevent anyone from leaking information... Our spies have almost been wiped out."
(Guo Jing: Massacre... too cruel!
Huang Yaoshi: You fool, you know that kindness doesn't work in war? In troubled times, harsh punishments are called for! You have to understand, we're rebelling, not playing house! Besides, do you know how many merchants sold salt and iron to support the Mongols? We've shown mercy by not exterminating the entire families of these traitors!
Huang Rong: Father is right! Guo Jing, you big fool, shut up! Go train your troops, don't come to the General Staff and cause trouble!
Guo Jing: Rong'er...
Huang Rong: This is a public place. There are only comrades here, no couples. Please call me the head of the logistics department!
"What?!"
Everyone was shocked! When did the Beggars' Sect become so bold?
You know, they have quite a few spies from the Song Dynasty! Beggars' Sect, are they planning a rebellion?
King Jinlun frowned, his face serious: "Your Highness, the situation may be more serious than we imagined! Something unknown must have happened in the Song Dynasty, especially in the Central Plains martial arts world!
I suggest temporarily recalling the scouts; we can't send them out again and waste their lives. Also, I'll personally lead a group to Xiangyang. This incident is too serious; we need to investigate thoroughly before we can send troops out!
"Is the Imperial Master suggesting that we withdraw our troops for now?"
King Jinlun's words implied the message that Kublai Khan should withdraw his troops, which made his face look extremely ugly... His Mongolian army roamed across the grasslands, destroyed the Jin Dynasty, fought in Europe and Asia, and even almost destroyed the Song Dynasty in the last war... If Guo Jing had not led the martial artists to defend the Xiangyang Pass, they would have rushed into the Central Plains long ago. When have they ever suffered a loss?
But now, King Jinlun actually wants them to withdraw?
"It's best to retreat," Jin Lun said with a serious face. "A whole army of ten thousand has vanished without a trace. I'm afraid the entire Central Plains martial arts world, under the leadership of the martial arts leader, will unite and launch a surprise attack on us..."
Before King Jinlun could finish his words, a messenger suddenly rushed into the tent!
"Report!~"
"What is it?"
"Your Highness, scouts report that approximately five thousand Song soldiers have been spotted on a hillside ten miles to the south! Their fighting power is incredibly strong. Of the thousand-man scout team, only one returned seriously injured!"
"What!"
Everyone stood up in surprise. Five thousand Song soldiers actually appeared in front of them!
"Send the order, blow the horn, prepare for battle!"
Kublai Khan was shocked and angry, and directly issued combat orders!
“Woo!~~”
The desolate sound of horns resounded throughout the Mongolian army's tents! The emergency assembly and battle calls blew, prompting the Mongolian army to quickly rush out of the tents to assemble, and then put on their armor and mounted their horses as quickly as possible, forming a battle array to meet the enemy!
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Ten miles south of the Mongolian camp, on the hillside, the Wulin Army was gathering, leaving the task of cleaning up the battlefield to the strong laborers from the villages they had rescued who had volunteered to follow...
Yue Shuo suggested that the rescued Han villages could be allowed to send people to clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils. In his words, they had no shortage of spoils and no energy to carry them, so it would be better to hand them over to the people outside the pass.
The people have suffered enough from being plundered all year round, and now they are looting the corpses of a wave of Mongolian soldiers. Can this be considered a cycle of cause and effect?
As for Xiaolongnu and the other four, they were standing on the hillside where they could see the Mongolian army camp, and were arguing?
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