Chapter 400: Annihilation

The situation is critical, Meng Ge has lost the large battalion under the city of Zhengzhou, and the rest is the main battalion and the left wing battalion, with a total strength of only 30,000. Shi Bin judged that he was definitely in a panic now.

The reason for this judgment is because his base camp is north of the Yellow River and not south of the Yellow River, and now the cities occupied by the Yuan people south of the Yellow River are all in danger, if Shi Bin goes crazy again, maybe Luoyang and Kaifeng will be taken. At that time, Meng Ge is afraid that he will have to go to Xi'an.

And Shi Bin, who returned to the camp, was not so happy this time, of course he was happy, but he was also worried. He hates, hates the fast horses of the Yuan people, and he can't escape if he can't beat them. Now Meng Ge only has 30,000 remnants of the defeated army, and once he plans to escape, he may disappear in one night.

Therefore, you have to find a way to let the Yuan people continue to fight with you, and it is best to be willing to fight to the last soldier. Fraud? Shi Bin denied it. Last time, he had already made Sai Zhangfei and Chen Yan suffer, and if he let others suffer this time, regardless of whether Meng Ge believed it or not, even if Meng Ge believed it, his conscience would not let him do it a second time, after all, it was too cold-blooded.

When Shi Bin was still thinking about how to force Yuanren to fight with him, Xu Feng came in to report: Yuanren has a new move.

Got a new move? Shi Bin is most afraid that the Yuan people have no action and come to the dark, and now Shi Bin who has come to Ming is the most happy. Immediately ordered Xu Feng to speak carefully.

"Marshal, this time the Yuanren's behavior is a little weird." Xu Feng said cautiously.

"Weird? Where is it weird? Let me elaborate. Xu Feng used the word 'weird', of course, Shi Bin attached great importance to it, and only listened to it after concentrating.

"Yes, sir. After this defeat, the Yuan people should have found a way to retreat or avoid the battle, but they did the opposite, and instead of retreating to the north of the Yellow River or going to the cities on the east and west sides to avoid the battle, they came at us. Xu Feng said.

What the! What kind of madness is Meng Ge, 100,000 horses were beaten to only 30,000, and he didn't want to run away but rushed to his camp, was he so defeated that he lost his ability to think normally?

"The big handsome also thinks it's strange, right?" Xu Feng said.

"Well, it's a little strange, it's a strange thing." Shi Bin frowned and said, "Xu Feng, go and call Xie Qiangbing and Li Ergou over, and say that I have something important to discuss." ”

After a while, Xie Qiangbing and Li Ergou went to Shi Bin's handsome tent, and the two obviously knew what Shi Bin asked them to do, and they were also thinking about problems while walking.

As soon as Li Ergou sat down, he said, "Dashuai, Xu Feng has already told me and Xie Qiangbing everything just now. This matter is indeed full of strangeness, and he thinks that this is Meng Ge's plan to repair the plank road in the dark. ”

"Oh? Ming plank road dark Chen Cang's plan? Master Li, please tell me what kind of plank road he has cultivated. Shi Bin was very happy to hear that Li Ergou had an idea as soon as he came in, and immediately ordered him to say it.

"Yes, sir. He believed that Meng Ge wanted to retreat to the north bank of the Yellow River safely, but the northerners were not good at water, and they were afraid that they would be intercepted by you on the Yellow River, which led to another fiasco and caused all the elites of his men to fall into the river and feed the fish. Therefore, the situation of going south for a decisive battle is actually secretly arranging the retreat. ”

This is a very good reason to explain why Möngke did it despite knowing that it was very risky to fight him. However, he is a dignified Emperor of the Great Yuan, and it is really hard to believe that he has repeatedly ventured into danger. If a person accidentally met the king of Hades, wouldn't the great empire that Genghis Khan had built with great difficulty fall apart? Isn't he a great sinner?

Because Möngke must not die, no matter what he was doing, one thing was for sure, everything he did was for the purpose of retreating.

"Tell me, is it possible for him to do this to attract our attention first, and then retreat to Luoyang or Kaifeng City with his fast horse?" Shi Bin asked.

Take refuge in a fortified city? Xie Qiangbing and Li Ergou didn't think about this idea. But they didn't believe that Möngke would really be a shrunken turtle. I hid before to defeat Zhengzhou City, but if I retreated into Jiancheng this time, it would really be a turtle with a shrunken head.

After thinking for a while, Li Ergou shook his head vigorously and said, "Dashuai, this matter is absolutely impossible." ”

Li Ergou's affirmative tone surprised Shi Bin very much, and in his impression, Li Ergou rarely spoke so unsparingly.

"Marshal, there are three reasons why the humble position is so affirmative. First, Meng Ge is the Great Yuan Emperor, and he cannot escape humiliation. If he is trapped by us in Kaifeng or Luoyang City, it will be a great insult to him. Second, if he doesn't evacuate as soon as possible, once he is besieged by the marshal, then he will be caught in the urn, and he will not be able to escape if he wants to. Unless you go far to Xi'an to ensure that you will not be trapped, it is impossible for tens of thousands of troops who are short of food and grass to do so. Third, even if we can't break the city, as long as we surround it, separated by a Yellow River, it is impossible for the Yuan people to rescue them, so they can only look at the river and sigh. The result must be that the Yuan Dynasty was politically unstable and even civil strife because of Meng Ge. ”

Shi Bin thought about it and felt that Li Ergou was right. Even if Meng Ge can escape to Xi'an, there is not enough food and grass there to support so many people. If we really go this way, how many of the 30,000 horses will be left back to the north?

Thinking of this, Shi Bin already understood what Li Ergou meant, Meng Ge must have wanted to cross the Yellow River directly and retreat to the north, instead of running along the Yellow River to Xi'an and then back to the north.

Even if he guessed Meng Ge's plan, Shi Bin's heart was still unstable, what if that guy went crazy and ignored his 30,000 horses? After all, as long as he, the Yuanren Emperor, returned to the north, he could immediately gather at least 100,000 horses.

"Master Li, your analysis is very correct, Meng Ge should directly cross the Yellow River north and retreat, but the official is still uneasy, what if he ignores his subordinates?"

After discussing this, Xie Qiangbing suddenly opened his mouth and raised a very realistic question: even if Meng Ge would never hide in the fortified city, how could they stop Meng Ge from crossing the Yellow River?

This time it made Shi Bin and Li Ergou embarrassed, because they were all talking empty before. I don't have a boat in my hands, and the boats are all in the hands of the Yuan people. It was only a small boat, but it was enough for Möngke and his descendants to escape. If there is enough time for them to build a pontoon bridge, almost all of them will be able to retreat safely.

What to do? Did they send someone to bypass the Yuan people overnight to go to the river and scuttle all those boats? This must have startled the snake, and Shi Bin immediately denied his stupid idea. In this way, not only will he not be able to catch Meng Ge, but he will definitely be stimulated to flee to Xi'an. It will be impossible to arrest him when the time comes.

"Marshal, there is a way to be lowly..." Xie Qiangbing said with some hesitation.

"Say it, say it. Brother, speak quickly! Don't be so spittering, it's not so particular now! Shi Bin was so anxious that he forgot the rules and told Xie Qiangbing not to call Master Xie, but to call his brother.

"Yes, sir. Don't we have a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal? Is it possible to secretly go over there and requisition a group of ships and sail along the Grand Canal into the Yellow River, thus blocking the road for the Yuan people to return north? Is it better to fight them again on the Yellow River and throw them all into the river to feed the fish? ”

"Good!" After hearing this, Shi Bin laughed loudly, "Good plan, brother good plan!" You immediately lead 3,000 cavalry to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to collect ships, and then secretly drive into the Yellow River to make an ambush. ”

In order to prevent Meng Ge from discovering that he had seen through his strategy, Shi Bin also arranged his troops very seriously, ready to 'fight' with Meng Ge at any time.

Soon, Meng Ge sent someone to write a battle letter, agreeing to a decisive battle in five days.

Shi Bin naturally responded to the battle, and pretended to be very arrogant, making a lot of nonsense, as long as Meng Ge washed his neck and prepared to be stabbed. The messenger was naturally very angry when he didn't know what was going on, and he was about to fight with Shi Bin several times but was stopped by Xu Feng. In the end, he was thrown out of the camp.

In the evening of the next day, Shi Bin was a little uneasy, and suddenly felt that something was missing. Although as long as Meng Ge dared to go north from the Yellow River, he would definitely be ambushed, but the losses he suffered may not be the greatest.

So he pulled Xu Feng, a little think tank, to think together. "Xu Feng, do you think this official's strategy is perfect?"

Refine? In Xu Feng's opinion, as long as Meng Ge crossed the river to the north and Xie Qiangbing was ambushed there in time, there would be no flaws in this strategy. But according to Shi Bin's current appearance, he obviously felt something imperfect, but he just didn't figure it out.

Fortunately, Xu Feng is not a guy who can only brag about patting horses, he is very real, so he replied: "The handsome man thinks that there is a mistake, and he thinks that there may be a mistake, but it is definitely not big." If the marshal must find out, he will do his best to help the marshal find out. If it is useless and cannot be found, please ask Master Li to help. ”

"Okay."

After thinking about it, Xu Feng didn't come up with anything, and was a little frustrated.

"Xu Feng, I want to ask you, what are the differences between this civilian ship and this warship?" Seeing that Xu Feng couldn't think of it, Shi Bin simply asked the question.

"The timber used for warships should be stronger, even if they collide with civilian ships." Xu Feng replied immediately.

"Hmm. But this time we are all civilian ships, and the Yuan people are also civilian ships. We are southerners who know water, and we are better than them in this. But what if they collide and burn jade? ”

This question made Xu Feng immediately dumbfounded. Indeed, the Yuan people are arrogant and not afraid of death, what if there is a jade burning? Wouldn't Shi Bin's loss be very large?

Unconsciously touched the Shi Bin sword in his waist, and the three-edged shape reminded Xu Feng of something.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, and Xu Feng said, "My lord, I have a way to prevent Yuanren from doing this." ”

"yes, hurry up!" Shi Bin said excitedly.

"We can put spears on the bow and stern of those ships. Once the Yuanren's ships collide with them, our spears will hold their ships and prevent them from advancing. At the same time, it can also make your own people jump on the ships of the Yuan people more smoothly and engage them, so that we will definitely win. ”

Shi Bin immediately adopted this method and ordered Li Ergou to immediately join Xie Qiang's troops with 3,000 cavalry and 10,000 spears.

Sure enough, on the morning of the fifth day, Meng Ge left Shi Bin with an empty camp. They ran away the night before.

However, when Meng Ge was about to cross the Yellow River and set foot on the north bank, the Song Dynasty sailors who were ambushed nearby rushed out to intercept the Yuan people.

The soldiers attacked halfway, with mental calculations or unintentional, or the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers fought on the water. The Yuan people naturally fell into the Yellow River like dumplings. This scene made Shi Bin ecstatic, and Meng Ge's heart was like a knife.

In the end, Meng Ge still fled, but less than 5,000 of his 100,000 soldiers and horses fled back, and 25,000 people became fish food.