Chapter 127 Reluctant Peace (1)
The east roared and the west rained. The road was clear but there was clear. There was still rain between a street and it was even more so than a few hundred miles away. Marshal A Shu welcomed the morning of rain on an isolated island in the wilderness, while Commander Zheng Jie saw the blue sky in Jinan hundreds of miles away.
"Start the siege!" Commander Zheng Jie slept well last night, and at this time he gave the order with a refreshing spirit. The order was soon teleported to various troops, and the commanders and soldiers carried bags of soil and straw to build high platforms in the planned place.
This stylized siege method has been fully proven. Because the process is simple, commanders and fighters can fully understand the tactics and know where they are in this tactic. Most of the negative emotions of human beings come from ignorance and from feeling their incompetence. With such clear cognition and sufficient training, the troops can perform strongly and adapt to changes.
Before 10 o'clock in the morning, the Mongolian army at the head of Jinan city began to be fired by rifles from higher positions. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, more than 10,000 Mongolian army was driven from the head of the city by 30,000 Song troops. The next evening, the Mongolian army was basically annihilated. On the afternoon of the third day, all Mongolian army in the entire Jinan city were wiped out and all Mongolian forces were captured.
At this point, 30,000 Song troops were injured 113 and 26 were killed.
At this time, Marshal A Shu, hundreds of miles away, finally saw the sunlight revealing a part of his face from the dense clouds. Even the pale sun made the ground brighter. The three days of rain finally stopped.
Looking into the distance, some of the high grounds before either disappeared or only a small top was exposed. Those counted the tops were either no one or only a small number of people were left. The Marshal was not surprised by this. There was no possibility of allowing a large number of people to survive at the same time in such a difficult environment. Either a part of them followed this rule and took the lead in taking action, or those who could not make up their minds died in a daze.
The Mongols crowded together like the cold-resistant emperor penguins in Antarctica. Unlike three days ago, the organized Mongolians would change positions like the emperor penguins after a certain period of time, so that the guys who caught the cold outside could warm up inside. The only person who could always be protected in the middle was Marshal A Shu.
Of course, Marshal A Shu also felt a little uncomfortable, for example, he was hungry at this time. The flood was when he crossed the river. Although everyone brought some dry food, they did not much. He stood in the rain and breeze for three days, and the heat was lost a lot and the dry food had been consumed. Marshal A Shu knew that if he could not leave some dry food for the most urgent time, something would have to happen. So the Marshal endured hunger with dry food in his arms, and this feeling was even more unhappy.
In Hua County, hundreds of miles away, Kublai Khan received a report about the A Shu army. When the army crossed the river, Kublai Khan's face became extremely ugly. It was his order to let the A Shu army cross the river, but the Khan never expected that the Yellow River water could rush out hundreds of miles. At this time, the words of water conservancy expert Guo Shoujing, "After the Yellow River breaks, you can rush to the Huai River" made Kublai Khan even more unhappy. The hindsight shot was too eye-catching!
Although Magistrate Boyan's voice was cold, he never fired a hindrance. Before Dahan got angry, he said, "Khan, come back north."
"Why?" Kublai Khan said angrily.
Marshal Boyan continued to say coldly as if he didn't see Kublai Khan's anger: "The Song army must be rampant in Shandong at this time, and our army can no longer help Shandong."
This wake-up call made Kublai Khan unable to speak immediately. A Shu took away 40,000 troops, and now there is no way to know how much the 40,000 troops are left. No matter how much they are left, there is no need to expect them to be useful. In this case, the Song army will definitely rage in Shandong again.
After a while of silence, Kublai Khan asked in a daze: "Why did it become like this?"
"We underestimate Zhao Jiaren." Marshal Boyan put forward his opinion. Many people admire Marshal Boyan's ability to explain the key points of things in just a few words, but many people who appreciate this ability are actually embarrassed to say that Marshal Boyan is often a maker of cold-blooded situations. For example, now, after he made this incisive argument, the Mongolian tent was immediately shrouded in embarrassing silence.
After all, Kublai Khan was a wise king. After hearing this explanation, he was not angry. His expression changed. It seemed that he was thinking, summarizing, and reflecting. After a while, he asked, "Boyan, why do you think you can't underestimate Zhao Jiaren?"
Boyan replied, "I don't know, because I have been underestimating him. If I hadn't underestimated him, when I knew that Zhao Jiaren wanted to fill the Yellow River, I should think he would be able to fill it."
These words continue to create a cold-blooded effect. No one outside Kublai Khan dared to speak, and no one among the ministers except General Boyan was qualified to speak.
Kublai Khan was so excited by these words. He emphasized with sarcasm: "If you say this, then Zhao Jiaren can go to heaven, but he can go to heaven?" As soon as he finished speaking, Kublai Khan himself remembered that when Zhao Jiaren was aiding Xiangyang, he used a huge Kongming lantern that could fly in the sky. After the Lin'an court surrendered, the Mongolian army seized such a huge Kongming lantern in the palace of the Song Kingdom and sent it to Mongolia. Some captured personnel said that as long as the special fuel provided by Zhao Jiaren in the bronze utensils below, the heat filled with the entire huge Kongming lantern can be blown out.
In other words, when Zhao Jiaren wants to go to heaven, he can do this.
"It seems that only by luring Zhao Jiaren into the trap set by us can he be solved!" Kublai Khan sighed.
Marshal Boyan continued to answer coldly: "If we can produce the same muskets and cannons as Song State, we should also defeat him. Khan, after this withdrawal, he should take this as the priority."
After hearing this, Kublai Khan suddenly stood up and cursed. His fierce attitude and Mongolian dialect made the Han ministers panic, but Marshal Boyan still had a dull expression. He could understand Mongolian dialect, so he knew that Kublai Khan was cursing the captured Song craftsmen. In Kublai Khan's view, as well as Song people, his skills were so huge that he lost all the faces of Song craftsmen. He was simply a group of fraudsters who were eating and drinking!
But when Kublai Khan finished scolding, he quickly put away his anger and said to everyone: "Send someone to see Zhao Jiaren now. Since he said he would talk to me, let's hear what he was going to talk to!"
The Mongolian ministers in the golden tent were stunned. They did not expect that Kublai Khan would surrender so quickly. However, everyone did not raise any objections. After seeing Zhao Jiaren's ability to fill the Yellow River, these people could not find any other way at this time.
There was a Song army camp north of the Yellow River, but the Mongolian army encountered no problems in negotiations. The envoy quickly brought Zhao Jiaren's request, "By the Yellow River as the boundary."
"How do you calculate westward?" Kublai Khan asked.
"They are all bounded by the Yellow River." The envoy lowered his head and reported. He was very worried that the Khan would get angry and then take his anger out of the envoy. After the envoy heard this request, he felt unacceptable.
Kublai Khan was not angry. In Mongolian culture, the strong had a say. After thinking for a moment, he ordered: "Go back and tell Zhao Jiaren that Hulao Pass is the boundary."
So the envoy took Kublai Khan's suggestion to the Song army camp and waited for the envoy to leave. Kublai Khan sighed, "I wonder if it's too late to send troops to rescue Luoyang at this time?"
Before Boyan could speak, Zhang Hongfan said loudly: "You are willing to lead troops to help Luoyang."
"Our army can no longer divide its troops." Boyan said.
Kublai Khan was fighting against heaven and man. Over the years, Mongolia had been concentrating superior forces, using his mobile ability to rush and fight and annihilate the war, creating the glory of the Mongolian army. Now the Han army on the Han area had no such combat power when facing the Song army, and Kublai Khan would not let the Mongolian army he controlled consume in the Han area in any case. So what Boyan was right.
But when Kublai Khan admits his conscience now, he feels like a knife, and he can't make up his mind for a moment.
At this time, to the east of Kublai Khan hundreds of miles away, on the isolated island that had collapsed to a few battles, Marshal A Shu felt his heart beating violently. His hand gently touched his chest, and there were two pieces of dry food there. Hunger made Marshal A Shu's sense of smell smell that after three days of water soaking and three days of stuffing, the dry food had already emitted a stinky smell.
Looking up at the water, at least on the isolated island where Marshal Ah Shu's eyesight was enough, some carnivorous birds began to start a grand meal with the human body lying on the isolated island as materials. The surging river water was still turbulent and did not narrow because of the rain. Four guards had already been swallowed by the river in everyone's sight after they went into the water. Marshal Ah Shu knew that with his current physical strength, he probably wouldn't perform better than those young guards.
At this moment, the guard at the highest point of the isolated island suddenly shouted in a hoarse voice: "Marson! Marshal! There are ships, and ships!"
Marshal A Shu quickly stood up and a boat appeared in the direction pointed by the guards. The boat had many sheepskin airbags tied under the raft, which were considered large sheepskin rafts. The people on the boat were rowing hard, searching for the isolated island in the river.
At this time, the commands of Marshal A Shu were no longer used. The guards stood up and shouted and waved, desperately trying to get the attention of the people on the sheepskin raft. The people on the sheepskin raft did not disappoint these people, and they also paddled towards this side.
Chapter completed!