"You have to kill if you should kill, you have to caress when you have to caress you!" Zhao Yu reached out and took a dried fish, put it in his mouth and chewed it, took another sip of tea, and said helplessly. He was well aware of the problem of the handling of prisoners of war, and even after the signing of the Geneva Treaty hundreds of years later, and even in the twenty-first century, the abuse of prisoners of war would appear in the news from time to time, not to mention that in ancient times, when the awareness of human rights was even weaker, the danger faced by a prisoner of war in both the East and the West was not much lower. And there is no point in entangling oneself, it is nothing more than the life of the obedient and the death of the rebellious, this is the eternal truth.

"Your Majesty, Governor Wang has been waiting for a long time!" Wang De saw that the little emperor was alive again, knowing that he had already recovered his merits, and had a plan, so he came to the front and changed the cup of hot tea.

"Oh, let's negotiate and have a final result, let him in!" Zhao Yu nodded after hearing this.

"Yes, please Governor Wang into the account!" Wang De immediately shouted outside the tent.

"Your Majesty, the minister and the envoy of the Mengyuan Dynasty, Ma Shao, met again on the matter of surrender, and he categorically refused!" After Wang Yinglin entered the tent, he did not greet him, but saluted upward.

"Thou hast not told him that this is an ultimatum, and that if thou refuse, our army will besiege the city in a big way?" Zhao Yu frowned and said.

"The minister has repeatedly told him that there is no room for maneuver, either open the city and surrender, or burn the jade with the city. And persuaded him bitterly, asking him not to be obsessed and to accompany the funeral of Yangzhou City, but he was obsessed. Whether to keep or release it is also for His Majesty to decide. Wang Yinglin replied.

"That's it, let him go back to the city!" Zhao Yu listened and was silent for a moment.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although Ma Shao is an enemy minister, he does have talent, and it is a pity to release him." Wang Yinglin was stunned when he heard this. He had many talks with Ma Shao, and he cherished his talent and wanted to persuade him to return to the Song Dynasty, but he was sternly refused. He also knew that the siege of the city was imminent, and with the current situation of the Song army, the destruction of the city was a foregone conclusion, and the sword and gun had no eyes, and after returning to the city, he was only afraid that his life would not be guaranteed. He wanted His Majesty to detain him in the camp, but after the city was broken, he had no choice but to obey.

"Let it go!" Zhao Yu knew that Wang Yinglin had the heart to accept, but he didn't keep it, seeing that he opened his mouth to speak, he waved his hand and said, "Since he has the heart to die with Yangzhou City, it is meaningless to persuade him again, so let him go along with his wishes and fulfill his name as a martyr!" After that, he took the pen and paper, and quickly wrote several edicts in succession, and asked Wang De to stamp the seal, and the order was issued immediately.

"Alas, it's a pity!" Seeing that the little emperor had no intention of retaining it at all, Wang Yinglin was a little disappointed.

"What? I can't bear it in my heart! Zhao Yu heard his sigh and raised his eyes and asked.

"Your Majesty, regardless of Ma Shaoqi's talent, he has been deferential in this negotiation, and has basically fulfilled all the demands made to us. And now that the negotiations have broken down and our army has begun to attack the city, it will inevitably be dealt with heavily. The minister was indeed a little unbearable, and he was moved by compassion! Wang Yinglin did not hide his true thoughts, and replied truthfully.

"Governor Wang, if you talk about his loyalty, I also admire it very much, but unfortunately it is that he is loyal to Meng Yuan, not to our dynasty!" Zhao Yu put down his pen and looked at it, "In the negotiations, Ma Shao's requirements for our dynasty were all satisfied, and it was a choice that the army had to make when they came to the city, rather than leaning towards our dynasty; Moreover, it is also to contain our army and buy time for the southern invasion of the Yuxi Timurid Department; In addition, he took the opportunity of the peace talks to spy on the reality of our army and pass on the military situation to Yuxi Timur, which can be regarded as helping me to complete the plan. In addition, Mengyuan Zhennan Wang Tuhuan had already controlled the military and political power, how could he mobilize so much property to send to our army, he was just a puppet controlled by others! ”

"Your Majesty...... It's okay, the minister will go and tell him! Wang Yinglin wanted to make another effort, but seeing that the little emperor had made up his mind, he sighed and saluted with pity. But he still had some patience in his heart, and during the negotiations, Ma Shao ran around the city and abroad, and sent them more than 20,000 war horses, and a total of no less than 3 or 4 million pieces of gold and silver. And agreed to cede the land of Taizhou, Zhenzhou, and Yangzhou, and the conditions for paying tribute to war horses, furs and other things, although this is not something that he can decide, but he also needs his persuasion, and the attitude is good anyway. Even if, as the emperor said, he thought that this was also 'each his master' and did not detract from his name, but he abandoned it at the moment, which made him feel that he had the intention of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

"Drumming, Jujun!" Wang Yinglin had just come out of the account, Zhao Yu got up and shouted loudly, followed by the sound of 'knock, ......knock', and the other armies heard the sound of drums, and they also beat the drums and stood by.

After the three drums, the commanders of the besieging city and the generals rushed to the imperial camp, Zhao Yu had already changed into military uniforms and sat in the tent, and the rest of the generals were divided into two sides, he glanced at it and looked a lot sparse when he first arrived in Yangzhou. At present, only the Second Army of the Forbidden Army and the Imperial Front Protector Army's Personal Guard Regiment, the Baggage Brigade and the First Marine Brigade are left in the city, and even Ni Liang sneaked back to Jiangnan and led all units of the Imperial Front Protector Army to participate in the siege and annihilation of Yuxi Timur, and the strength has been greatly weakened.

"At present, Yuxi Timur led an army of more than 100,000 people to cross the river from Tongzhou into the south of the Yangtze River, and the first army and the imperial front guard army have been arranged in place, and the first naval army has also been ordered to return from the open sea, enter the mouth of the Yangtze River to cut off the enemy's retreat, and the southern invasion of the enemy army has fallen into the ambush circle of our army. And the envoys sent by Yangzhou refused to open the city and surrender, and still dreamed of Yuxi Timur leading the troops to relieve the siege! Zhao Yu did not greet him, but directly briefed the generals about the current situation. Everyone was refreshed when they heard this, so that His Majesty succeeded in luring the enemy, and the enemy forces in the two Huai areas were empty, so the time was ripe to recover Yangzhou.

"Your Majesty is wise and has no last resort. Since Yangzhou refuses to surrender, please give an order to your majesty, and your subordinates will capture the city within two days! Chen Fenglin came out and asked for his life.

"I have been in Yangzhou City for more than a month, two days is too much!" Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates will capture Yangzhou City one day, and the day after tomorrow will welcome Your Majesty into the city and rest the horse!" Chen Fenglin listened, gritted his teeth and said again.

"Okay, today the whole army will pull out the camp, go down to the village one mile outside the city, have dinner tomorrow, start attacking the city at the end of the day, be sure to break the city in a battle, gather and annihilate the enemy in Yangzhou!" Zhao Hao ordered.

"Your Majesty's intention is to gather the enemy army in the city?" Chen Fenglin frowned when he heard this, and asked, "Your Majesty also knows that the enemy in the city is not inferior to our army, if the city is besieged and attacked from all sides, the enemy will fight to the death if he knows that there is no way to retreat, which will lead to the delay of the war." It is better to encircle three and lack one, forcing the enemy out of the city, and our army can set up an ambush outside the city to annihilate it, in order to quickly get down Yangzhou City. ”

The generals also whispered when they heard it, and everyone knew that Sun Tzu had a saying: ten will surround it, five will attack it, and the multiple will divide it, and the enemy will be able to fight, and if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided. At present, the strength of the two armies is equal, but their own victory is equipped with firearms and occupies a certain advantage, which can make up for the shortcomings of the troops to a certain extent, but it is not enough to completely fill the gap in the strength of the two sides. And His Majesty must know the truth, but he still wants to annihilate the enemy in the city, which makes everyone wonder.

"It is precisely because of the equal strength of the enemy and the enemy that I don't have extra troops to set up an ambush, and it is probably not easy for the two legs to catch up with the four legs who are fleeing for their lives, right?" Zhao Hao touched his chin and said coldly, "In addition, there are many high-ranking officials and generals in Jiangbei Province gathered in Yangzhou City, once they can't intercept it, let them escape, or even lead the troops to break out of the encirclement, it will cause a great obstacle to our northward advance." Therefore, as long as they are gathered and annihilated in the city, they can be left in a leaderless state in a short period of time, and they will not be able to form organized resistance to our army! ”

"Your Majesty, this will be a hard battle, Yangzhou City is only afraid of being destroyed in a battle!" Li Lei, the commander of the first division, said with a worried face.

"Hmm." Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment and nodded. He immediately realized the subtext of Li Lei's words, the Song army was strictly disciplined, it was not allowed to kill indiscriminately, and it tried to hurt innocent people as much as possible during wartime. The implication of his words is that if we want to conquer the city with the same strength of the enemy and our troops, and to completely annihilate the enemy's army, we must rely on our own firearms, especially artillery, which will inevitably injure innocents and destroy the houses in the city under the indiscriminate bombardment. However, due to the need for military discipline and the preservation of the integrity of the city, they did not dare to use artillery indiscriminately, and could only rely on soldiers to fight, so heavy casualties were inevitable. However, if you suffer heavy losses during the siege, it will lead to the execution of the subsequent plan.

"I allow you to make your own decisions according to the development of the battle situation, and everything is to capture the city and completely annihilate the enemy's defenders, and you must be good at carrying forward the strengths of our army, breaking the past conventions, using new tactics and tactics, and striving for the greatest victory with the smallest losses!" Zhao Hao pondered for a moment and said, he knew that he wanted to let the horse run fast, but he tightened the reins, and the horse couldn't do it if he was tired to death.

"The last general will obey the order, and he will seize the city in one battle and annihilate the defending enemy!" The generals looked at each other after hearing this, and they were all delighted, and as soon as His Majesty's Chrysostom was opened, it was equivalent to removing the ropes that bound them and they could let go of the battle, and everyone saluted upwards in unison.

"Excuse me!" Zhao Yu raised his hand to let everyone get up, and with another wave of his hand, a team of guards carried more than a dozen boxes into the tent and placed them in front of the table. He stood up and lifted the two chests, which were full of gold ingots.

"Your Majesty......" There was a yellow sky in front of him, Chen Fenglin estimated that if these boxes were full of gold ingots, even if they were not millions, they would be worth at least hundreds of thousands of yuan, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, his eyes were shining, with doubts, and he couldn't believe it.

"The soldiers use their lives, and I will not be stingy, and those who ascend the city first will be rewarded with a hundred taels and promoted to the third level; The team has a bounty of 1,000 taels and is promoted to two levels; The headquarters are all rewarded, and the commanders and generals are all knighted. Those who have made meritorious deeds in battle, I also have their own rewards, but what I am afraid of is that no one has the ability to take this gold! Zhao Yu pointed to the golden box and said.

"The subordinates will serve their lives, and if they can't take the city tomorrow, come and see you!" Chen Fenglin took a step forward, turned around and said solemnly......