Chapter 1577: Sneak attack on Dadu, accept surrender
Chapter 1577: Sneak attack on Dadu, accept surrender
The news of the turmoil in the Song Dynasty was learned by Meng Ge and Kublai Khan a month later.
The two thought that the Southern Song Dynasty had too much time to take care of itself and would continue to fight among themselves, so they joined forces and went north to prepare to compete for the throne of the grassland Khan.
Little did the two of them know that Su Mingzhe had absolutely no martial ethics.
The two sides had secretly formed an alliance before and agreed not to interfere with each other.
But, in early May.
As soon as Meng Ge and Kublai Khan left, Su Mingzhe personally led 30,000 cavalry from behind and went straight to Kublai Khan's home base - Dadu.
Mid May.
Thirty thousand cavalry marched in a hurry and arrived at the capital of Dadu.
Su Mingzhe didn't even set up a camp, but directly lined up the fifty newly built tiger squatting cannons and blasted them with three rounds, smashing the walls of the capital into rubbish.
"It's Su Mingzhe, the big devil again!"
Duo'er, the eldest son of Kublai Khan, was so frightened that his legs weakened just when he heard the roar of the cannon!
He is still a ten-year-old child, how could he be pitted against Su Mingzhe, the big devil?
Fortunately, there were guards beside him who helped him up in time.
Only then did Duo'er remember that her father had left a military advisor for her.
In a critical situation, even a straw can be used as a life-saving rope.
Duoer just grabbed the monk Zicong next to him, that is, Liu Bingzhong, and said with a pale face:
"Master Liu, what should we do now?"
After two bloody battles in Xiangyang, Su Mingzhe defeated the many with fewer and wiped out 300,000 Tatars.
In the eyes of the Tatars, Su Mingzhe has long been no different from a monster.
At this moment, the city gate has been breached, but Su Mingzhe still ordered people to load the cannonballs, making it clear that he would continue the bombing.
Under tremendous psychological pressure, the Tatars on the city wall either fled or knelt down and asked to surrender.
Seeing such a scene, Liu Bingzhong remembered the persuasion of his old friends, sighed, and then said to the young master:
"Your Majesty, the opponent is coming fiercely. Yelu Jin and I can hold it off for a while... Your Majesty, you can lead the cowardly Xue army and escape from the north gate..."
The Qixue Army is the Tatar Royal Guards and is the most powerful army among the Tatar armies.
Duo'er was only the eldest son of Kublai Khan. Before Kublai Khan left, he left him a thousand timid soldiers.
When she heard that Liu Bingzhong asked him to escape with a thousand timid Xue troops, Duoer panicked instantly:
"Master Liu, where do you want me to escape?"
Kublai Khan led an army of 150,000 people to the north to help Meng Ge fight for the throne.
Nowadays, most of them have been conquered by Su Mingzhe.
In Duo'er's eyes, there is no safe place under the sky.
"If the Crown Prince is unwilling to leave Dadu...then surrender..."
Liu Bingzhong struggled to express the outcome that he had long expected:
"I heard that Su Mingzhe implemented benevolent policies on Jingdong Road. He was especially kind to the Jurchens and Khitans and treated them equally. If we don't resist and surrender directly, Su Mingzhe... maybe he won't embarrass us!"
"...Listen to Master Liu!"
As the eldest son of Kublai Khan, when Duo'er heard that Liu Bingzhong asked him to surrender, his first reaction was not anger, but a sigh of relief.
Facing the big devil Su Mingzhe, there is no shame in surrendering.
As Liu Bingzhong and Duo'er walked down the city and announced their surrender, Su Mingzhe successfully took over the entire capital city.
After all the 50,000 city defense troops in the capital were disarmed and imprisoned, Su Mingzhe summoned the surrendered Tatar generals.
"The criminal Liu Bingzhong, please pay your respects to His Royal Highness King Lu!"
After Liu Bingzhong saw Su Mingzhe, he quickly knelt down, kowtowed and begged for mercy.
This time, Meng Ge and Kublai Khan led the army to the north. Most of the people left behind were led by Duoerzhi, Yelujin and Liu Bingzhong.
Duo'er was only the eldest son of Kublai Khan, but he was still young, only ten years old. He was said to be a left-behind minister, but in fact he only had a thousand timid Xue troops under his command.
Yelu Jin is the son of the former Prime Minister Yelu Chucai, who is also the eldest brother of Yelu Qi in the novel "The Condor". He represents the old forces of the Liao Kingdom and controls 50,000 city guards.
Liu Bingzhong's ancestors were from the Liao Kingdom, and he began to serve as an official in the Jin Kingdom during his great-grandfather's time.
When Liu Bingzhong grew up, Liu Run, his father, surrendered to the Tatars.
When Liu Bingzhong grew up, he first became a monk with the Buddhist name Zicong.
Five years ago, Kublai Khan and Liu Bingzhong hit it off and took him under his command.
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Most of the people left behind this time were said to be led by Duo'er, but in fact, everyone obeyed Liu Bingzhong's orders.
Therefore, when Liu Bingzhong led his men to surrender, Yelu Jin did not resist even though he still had tens of thousands of troops.
At this moment, these people were all kneeling in front of Su Mingzhe.
"No gifts!"
Su Mingzhe has heard about Liu Bingzhong's name for a long time.
It is rumored that Yao Guangxiao, the ‘prime minister in black’ of Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was his disciple from another generation.
Su Mingzhe looked past Liu Bingzhong and looked at the group of kneeling prisoners behind him. His eyes were cold and ruthless, and he spoke in a deep voice to admonish:
"The king's army went north to restore the Central Plains and the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties...Although the people of Erqin are called 'barbarians and Tatars', in my eyes, they are also descendants of Yan and Huang Miao! If you are willing to surrender, I can guarantee that I will treat you
Treat everyone equally...but to rebel again after surrendering is disloyal and unjust..."
"The guilty minister dare not!"
Seeing that Su Mingzhe was willing to accept him and others, Liu Bingzhong happily kowtowed and thanked him.
As for what Su Mingzhe said next, you can just listen to it.
In such troubled times, how can there be true loyal ministers?
Duo'erzhi, Yelujin and others could only kowtow to express gratitude.
Seeing that everyone was complying, Su Mingzhe nodded with satisfaction, and then began to appease everyone:
"Yelu Jin, I heard that your little sister Yelu Yan is very beautiful and wants to be the side princess. Are you willing?"
The Yelu family is the royal family of the Liao Kingdom. Su Mingzhe married Yelu Yan purely to win over the old ministers of the Liao Kingdom, and he was not really coveting Yelu Yan's beauty.
Yelu Jin didn't care about that. Hearing that Su Mingzhe was going to marry his sister as a princess, even if it was a side princess, made him feel relieved, and he quickly thanked him and said:
"I am honored to be able to marry the prince!"
If you appease the Yelv clan, you will also appease the Khitan people.
Su Mingzhe immediately looked at Duoer and said:
"Duo'er, I heard that your mother is definitely a prairie beauty. I want your mother to be my concubine, do you have any objections?"
"The guilty minister has no objection!"
The ten-year-old Duo'er only understood human affairs and knew that his biological mother was accepted as the concubine by Su Mingzhe, which was a humiliation to his father Kublai Khan. However, he did not dare to object.
After all, the situation is stronger than the people. If he dares to oppose, his head will probably fall off.
Later, Su Mingzhe wooed other ministers and took a total of six concubines.
These six concubines mainly come from the four forces.
Two of them came from Orudo of Kublai Khan, one was Doerzhi's mother Chabi, and the other was named Tegulun.
Both Tegulun and Chabi came from the Hongji tribe.
Among them, Tiegulun is the great-granddaughter of Hongjila Yingchen. She is twenty-six years old this year and married Kublai Khan when she was nine years old.
Chabi is the youngest daughter of Hongjila Yingchen. She is twenty-four years old this year. She married Kublai Khan when she was seven years old.
Tegulun has nothing to say.
Chabize gave birth to two sons, Duoerzhi and Zhenjin, to Kublai Khan.
The remaining four daughters are Yeluyan, who is a descendant of the Liao royal family.
Wang Chen, the granddaughter of Wang E, the number one scholar of the Jin Kingdom.
Xu Jie, the daughter of Xu Heng, a great scholar of Neo-Confucianism.
Zhang Caiwei, the daughter of Zhang Wenqian, one of the Five Great Masters of Xingzhou.
With the political marriage, everyone who followed Liu Bingzhong in surrender felt a little more relieved.
At night.
Su Mingzhe invited everyone who had surrendered to a banquet, and then, in order to show his sincerity in accepting everyone, he directly took the hands of the two girls, Tegulun and Chabi, and danced around the bonfire.
When everyone saw this, their expressions gradually became happy.
This is the principle of ‘actions speak louder than words’.
No matter how nice Su Mingzhe's words are, they are still not as good as one action.
Of course, no matter how close Su Mingzhe is to everyone, he still needs to take precautions.
While holding Tegurun in his arms, Chabi entered Kublai Khan's Orudo to rest, Su Mingzhe did not forget to cover the capital city with his spiritual consciousness.
At this moment, Dadu, like Tegulun and Chabi, is in a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside.