Chapter 769: 'Survive in the Dead'

Chen Yi led his troops down the river from Yangmingbao to intercept the enemy troops reinforcing Ezhou, but to be honest, he really didn't want to come, and he didn't dare to come. In that year, in the battle of Qiongzhou, 40,000 sailors were killed almost no piece of armor, and three commanders died, fortunately, Ali Hague took responsibility, but Zhennan Wang Tuhuan was demoted to Ezhou, not allowed to return to Beijing to see, and he was also reduced from 10,000 commanders to centurions.

Chen Yi was naturally not convinced by this, thinking that he was the commander of the naval forces along the river in the Great Song Dynasty, and the Zhang Yu family was just a grass coward in the small blisters of Baoding. He knew that as early as the Jin period, Baoding mainly referred to two places, one was Jin Baozhou, which was the base of the Han Marquis Zhang Rou's family after the Mongol occupation; One is Baoding County, which is similar to the neighboring Xin'an geographical environment, with dense water and lakes. After the Mongol army invaded the Song Dynasty in the south, Xin'an was successively defended by Zhang Fu and Zhang Jin, and it was Baoding and Xin'an who defended against Mongolia.

Many years later, he was destroyed by Zhang Rou, and after Zhang Jin surrendered to Mongolia, he went south with the army and died in Xuzhou. His son Zhang Rongshi marched to conquer thousands of households from Kublai Khan's southern expedition to Ezhou, and Kublai Khan ascended the throne to reward his merits by receiving 10,000 households of the navy, and the same Xie Cheng was the two major navy 10,000 households. After that, Zhang Rongshi participated in the pacification of the Li Lan Rebellion and the Xiangfan Campaign, led the new army to attack the Song Dynasty with Boyan, and successively belonged to the Ali Hague and Song Dugang groups, participated in the war between Lianghu and Jiangxi, and served as the Hubei Provincial Propaganda Envoy.

Zhang Yu is the second son of Zhang Rongshi, taking his father's position, serving as the marshal of the capital and the navy of ten thousand households, guarding Huangzhou, at the beginning of the Jianghuai and Jiangxi town garrison army reorganization, the marshal's mansion and the recruitment division are ten thousand households, and Zhang Yu is the Baoding navy tens of thousands of households, and there are 18 naval army thousands of households such as Zhongshan, Dadu and the new attached army, with more than 1,000 warships and more than 20,000 troops.

The Baoding Naval Army Wanhu was originally stationed in Nankang Pengze Lake, the Yangtze River defense line in Jiangzhou, and was ordered to go up the river to reinforce when the remnant Song rebels wanted to attack Ezhou, stationed in Yangluo Fort, Jiangzhou was then lost and occupied by the Song army. Zhang Yu was heartbroken by this and was deeply ashamed of it, but Chen Yi was secretly glad that he had escaped the attack of the two Song Water Army, otherwise I don't know who would be ashamed!

Chen Yi knows very well that the current situation is different from a few years ago, the Song army defeated 40,000 households stationed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in a row, wiped out the Jiankang Longwan naval army, and wiped out the Cao army that transported grain to Wanhu Mansion by seaway, and the whereabouts of Wanhu Zhang are still unknown, and Jiangnan has fallen except for Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Guangzhou, and now it can only be trapped in the city and it is difficult to do anything.

But the road is narrow, the Song army reinforces the Ezhou battlefield again, others don't know, but Chen Yi has learned from the military report that it is the little emperor of the Song Dynasty who came this time, and his royal drive is determined to win Ezhou! He repeatedly suggested to Wanhu not to underestimate the enemy, and not to engage in the battle without authorization, but not only was he made fun of by the generals, but he was also reprimanded by Zhang Yu's bandit grandson, and ordered him to go to meet the enemy as the vanguard and take the lead.

"Qianhu, our army is less than ten miles away from the enemy's fleet, please give me instructions!" Just when Chen Yi was annoyed, the deputy general came to pray.

"How did Song Jun react?" Chen Yi asked with a frown.

"Still tracing the river in two columns along the river, but the distance between the two teams has narrowed!" The adjutant general said.

"What do you think?" Chen Yi asked.

"Song Jun doesn't seem to have taken us seriously at all, so why don't you teach them a lesson!" The adjutant replied.

"How do you teach them?" Chen Yi's brows twisted into a pimple, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Qianhu, we occupy the upper reaches, we can first cast fire boats down the river, the enemy ships march in formation, we will definitely be able to burn the company's army, and then we will wave the army down to capture the puppet king. As long as it is captured, the siege of Ezhou and Jiangling will be solved, and thousands of households will definitely be able to reseal thousands of households with this special achievement! The adjutant said with a smile.

"Well, what you said is right, if you can make this great achievement, it will also be indispensable for your benefits, go and prepare!" Chen Yi said with a smile on his face.

"Qianhe, the last general will go and prepare to cast the fire ship!" The adjutant general Shi Li said goodbye, but as soon as he turned around, he felt a cold in his chest, and looked down in surprise at the tip of the knife exposed on his chest, and the gurgling sound in his mouth seemed to be not very believing, but he had already made a sound, and felt that the knife was violently stirred in his chest and then pulled out, and the person fell to the ground, blood spurted out and flowed down the deck, gathering into a puddle in front of his eyes.

"Uncle, what are you...... You killed Vice General Qin, how can we explain! ”

"Qingping, now those thieves treat us like slaves, calling us around, we are all fed up with their salting, why don't we return to the Song Dynasty, what do you think!" Chen Yi turned around viciously and said.

"Uncle, the little nephew is willing to follow!" Chen Qingping looked at his uncle's eyes with a fierce light, and bowed his head to salute.

"Okay, hang the thief's head on the bow of the ship, lower the mast and raise the flag!" Chen Yiyan said.

"Uncle, can the army obey the order, and the Song army will accept the surrender?" Chen Qingping was still a little weak-hearted.

"Since the defeat of our troops in Qiongzhou, they have been squeezed out, and the Yuan court also looks at us as the new annexed army, and after learning that our dynasty counterattacked Jiangnan and regained the lost territory again and again, the generals of the various departments have already returned to the Song Dynasty, and they will definitely follow." Chen Yi said, "The current army is the army led by Emperor Song himself, and at this time, we will accept it when we defect, which is better than surrendering after being defeated." ”

"Uncle is right, but my nephew heard that the little emperor has always been ruthless in treating traitors, and often people are beheaded, his family members are exiled, and his property is lost!" Chen Qingping still had palpitations in his heart.

"I don't know, but Zhang Yu's little boy thinks that we are the forwards is a plan to kill people with a knife, and if you step forward, you will die, and if you retreat, you will still die. Then it is better to gamble once, and if we win, we can leave the whole body and return to our hometown to be a rich man; Defeated, it's just a death! Chen Yiyan said that he knew that he took the initiative to surrender, and the little emperor would not kill himself whether it was for the sake of face or for the sake of recruiting old ministers in the future, but would reward him heavily. However, the possibility of continuing to be an official is not very large, and no one will trust those who rebel again and again, and continuing to rebel against officials will invite disaster. But there was an accident, but it had come to this point, and I had to survive in death......

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For Chen Yi to come to ask for surrender, the generals of the Song army who were ready for battle were a little surprised, and also made Zhao feel surprised, he had fought for so many years, and it was the first time he encountered an enemy army who surrendered voluntarily. But he thought that the change in the situation between the enemy and us had also made the enemy unstable, especially those old soldiers of the Song Dynasty, who had been used as cannon fodder and discriminated against for so many years, so he was naturally extremely dissatisfied, and it was not surprising that he returned to the Song Dynasty. But it cannot be ruled out that they have other ideas.

"Bring Chen Yi up!" Zhao thought about it, whether it was true or not, he would see it, and turned his face to Chen Dunyan and said.

"Yes!" Chen Dun waved his hand and asked the guards to bring Chen Yi in from outside the cabin.

"Sin General Chen Yi knocks to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" As soon as Chen Yi entered the cabin, he knelt down and bowed, shouting long live.

"General Chen abandons the darkness and turns to the light, how can he be bound, and the rope is about to be loosened!" Zhao looked down and saw that Chen Yi's armor was all taken out, only wearing a cloth coat, and kneeling on the ground with five flowers, which made people loosen their bindings.

"Your Majesty, the sin has brought the former greed for life and fear of death to the tartar, and he knows the death penalty. The great sin has been cast, I don't ask for forgiveness from Your Majesty, but I want to be loyal to Your Majesty, and there is no regret about dying on the battlefield! Chen Yi, who was tied, heard this, and kowtowed again with tears streaming down his face.

"Sage Zeng Yun: It's not too late to die. General Chen can repent and return to the imperial court, I am very relieved! Zhao saw through Chen Yi's thoughts at a glance, but he couldn't break it, so he could only say it in a fake way.

"The sin general has thanked His Majesty for his grace not to kill, and he is willing to attack and destroy the enemy army for the advance and help His Majesty seize Ezhou!" Chen Yi was loosened, and listened to the words of the little emperor, but he did not exceed his expectations, his heart was half relieved, and he kowtowed again to thank him, but he didn't dare to get up without listening to the order.

"General Chen has been in Mengyuan for many years, and it is really rare that he has not lost his loyalty to the king!" Zhao took a sip of tea and said.

"Your Majesty, the sin will be in Cao Ying's heart in Han, he was only forced to live in the enemy camp that day, and he led the troops to attack Qiong as a last resort, and he wanted to defect to the battle, but Ali Hague has been sitting in the Chinese army, so he ......" Chen Yi heard that his heart had just let go of his heart and slipped up again, and quickly explained.

"Hehe, I understand the situation that day, General Chen attached the enemy out of helplessness, and it is not too late to be corrected today, so I will be given a seat!" Zhao laughed twice.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Yi thanked him again, then got up and sat on half of his ass.

"I personally led the troops to conquer Ezhou this time, but I don't know the current enemy situation, and I have to ask General Chen for advice!" Zhao asked again.

"Your Majesty, the sin will be determined and you will know everything!" Chen Yi hurriedly got up and saluted.

"Even if you return to the right, the general will no longer have to be called a criminal minister, I will make you the general of the country, Xiakou County, and the Guiyi army and navy will be under control, and you will be given ten thousand dollars and thirty silk silks." Zhao thought for a while and said.

He knew that Chen Yi had already seen through the unspoken rules of officialdom, and if he killed him, no one would take the initiative to surrender, but would fight desperately. So you can only reward them for their conversion so that you can set an example to others who have ideas. In the final analysis, even if you know that he is guilty and the crime is extremely heinous, you have nothing to do with him for the time being, so you can only endure your breath and follow the 'rules' to show your magnanimity.

Since he spent a lot of money, Zhao naturally wanted to try to recover the cost, in addition to inquiring in detail about the deployment and equipment of the Yuan army, he also asked him about the garrison of the Baoding naval army. It was learned that in addition to sending warships to patrol the river on weekdays, the enemy naval army stationed the main force at Yangluo Fort, one was to control the river surface and ensure the water passage of Ezhou; Both of them were also worried that the Song water army, which had reinforced Gangneung, would launch a surprise attack from upstream downstream. And these coincide with the information he has obtained, showing that Chen Yi is quite honest and has nothing to hide.

This time to aid Hubei, Zhao dispatched more than 200 warships of the Imperial Protector Naval Army, and the number of enemy warships was several times that of his own, and he was confident that he would defeat them, but it was also very troublesome to entangle, and it lasted for a long time. But what I lack is time, of course, it is best to wipe out the enemy in a battle, or cripple them and then be unable to help Hubei.

However, the enemy naval army was stationed at Yangluo Fort, and they could not defeat Zike and escape along the Han River, but they did not dare to pursue too deeply. However, the enemy army can go out of the river mouth at any time to harass and attack the flotilla on the river. Therefore, Zhao thought that it was the best policy to occupy Yangluo Fort and seal the mouth of the river at present, but the best way to annihilate the enemy's naval army was to cut off the enemy's retreat and gather them and annihilate them, but it was almost impossible for his own fleet to go up the river and seize the upstream without being discovered by the enemy.

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to be the pioneer, cover the army to seize the upstream, block the river and cut off the enemy's retreat!" Chen Yi listened to the little emperor's difficulties and took the initiative to ask for help. He is very aware of his situation, if he wants to be a traitor, he must be conscious, and the head of a lieutenant general cannot afford to be exchanged for glory and wealth, and if he wants to live well in the future, he must come up with real materials.

"It's not proper, you haven't returned from the battle for a long time, how can Zhang Yu not send someone to find out the situation, if you go and return, how can you not be suspicious?" Zhao waved his hand.

"Your Majesty doesn't know a lot, those northerners think they are superior to us southerners, and they are even more distrustful of us, the new annexed army, Zhang Yu's thief just let the last general act as a dead army, our life and death will not be in our eyes, and there will definitely be no reinforcements to suppress the formation." Chen Yi sighed and said, "The last general only needs to send someone to report back, saying that the enemy army saw us going down the river and did not dare to fight, so he turned and fled to the direction of Daye, and now he has snatched more than ten warships, and he is still in pursuit, and he will definitely call us back to the army!" ”

"Why is that?" Zhao was a little strange when he heard it, he won the battle and retreated, what kind of road is this, and asked in surprise.

"Your Majesty doesn't know, Zhang Yu is in charge of the Baoding Navy for three generations, he is actually only relying on Zuyin to take office, except for suppressing bandits and has not participated in the war, but he is arrogant and domineering, and he can't see that our troops have robbed him of the limelight, so he will definitely order the last general to retire." Chen Yi said with a wry smile.

"I see!" Zhao nodded and said, he understands that sometimes the master is not terrible, but the slave who thinks he is the master is terrible, and it is also the so-called official level to crush people to death, and the king of Hades is difficult to see the little ghost. Invading alien rulers often like to strengthen their rule by 'razing and destroying them', and are happy to see them fighting and restraining each other.

"Please also ask Your Majesty for permission to atone for your sins!" Chen Yi saluted again.

"Okay, it's up to you, let's have a fish and catch it all!" Zhao thought that this plan was indeed feasible, even if there was fraud in it, he was not afraid, and it was a big deal to let it go. If it succeeds, it will be able to cut off the enemy's retreat and replenish supplies and troops, and it will be difficult for the enemy to recover the naval force in a short period of time to ensure the success of the battle.

"Your Majesty will not give up, and the last general is willing to serve the dead!" Chen Yi didn't expect the little emperor to agree to his plan so easily, and he was quite moved......

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