Sanhe City, Khan's Golden Horde.

Zhang Hongfan, who was tied up with all kinds of flowers, finally met Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

"Tell me, what happened last night?"

Kublai Khan has calmed down from his rage, and he is a generation of heroes in the end, and he will not really be judged by emotions. Otherwise, Zhang Hongfan would not be alive now.

Zhang Hongfan's heart was relieved, he didn't dare to hide it, and told everything that happened last night. When narrating, Zhang Hongfan tried his best to have no personal feelings and was 100% restored.

Kublai Khan had his own judgment, Zhang Hongfan didn't dare to play any careful thinking on this, it would only be self-defeating. I have to say that Zhang Hongfan really understands Kublai Khan.

After listening to Zhang Hongfan's explanation, Kublai Khan was noncommittal, and then asked, "What are your plans next?" These words are actually equivalent to pardoning Zhang Hongfan's capital crime and giving him a chance to make meritorious contributions.

Zhang Hongfan endured his excitement and said as concisely as possible: "Last night's defeat was mainly a rout in the hearts of the army, and it didn't really hurt our army, after all, the main force is still there. As long as the plan is properly planned, and His Majesty personally recruits to boost morale, Lin'an will be broken. ”

Looking at the situation, Zhang Hongfan was not discouraged at all and seemed full of confidence.

"Be specific." Kublai Khan said.

"Through these few days of fighting, the last general has discovered that the enemy has an Achilles' heel." Zhang Hongfan finally made a killer move, and said slowly: "Some time ago, when we arranged for the Han people to build earthen forts, the Southern Song army did not stop it, which shows that the Song people are weak and have the kindness of women, and they are unwilling to attack their compatriots. ”

"What do you mean?" Kublai Khan gradually became interested.

"As long as a group of Han people are recruited, they will be driven to the front line, driven to the foot of the Lin'an city gate, and then shot and killed, forcing them to storm the city gate, and I am not afraid that Lin'an will not take the initiative to open the city gate." Zhang Hongfan said.

"Once the city is opened, Lin'an will be broken."

If there is a Han person here, I am afraid that he will be eager to skin Zhang Hongfan and eat meat.

"This man is so bad!"

For the sake of personal life and death, Zhang Hongfan actually wanted to take the lives of countless Han people, which is really hateful. Don't forget, although Zhang Hongfan did not live under the rule of the Southern Song Dynasty, he has pure Chinese blood in his blood.

Kublai Khan was very happy, Zhang Hongfan's suggestion was very much to his appetite, and he had already decided to slaughter the city for three days after capturing Lin'an City, regardless of the opposition of the Han ministers around him.

No one has yet killed the Mongols without paying the price of blood.

Kublai Khan asked Zhang Hongfan to loosen his bonds, and said: "This matter will be handed over to you, and if you capture Lin'an, I will not only pardon you for your innocence, but also give you an official and a knight!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Hongfan's face flushed.

"Let's go down and prepare, and in three days, I will go to Lin'an in person."

"No!"

…………

On the eighteenth day of the battle, Lin'an City.

Two days have passed since that raid, and since yesterday, the Mongol troops remaining in the six bases have been pulling out their camps and gathering to the front again.

After the end of the raid, 250,000 Mongol troops were gathered in the northern camp, and the six bases numbered about forty-five people, including the fleeing sergeants.

This also means that in the surprise attack that night, the three large battalions in the east, west and south of Mongolia totaled 300,000 troops, 100,000 escaped from Ascension, and the number of dead was 200,000, which was indeed a fiasco.

The Mongol army's casualties in just one night were twice as many as in the previous days combined.

At this point, only 700,000 of the million-strong Mongol army remained.

Even so, it was still an insurmountable mountain for the Southern Song camp.

Yesterday afternoon, the specific battle damage has been counted.

After a series of battles, only 290,000 of the 340,000 Inhuman Legions remained, including 150,000 cavalry and 140,000 infantry; The 100,000 Great Song Forbidden Army was even worse, with only more than 50,000 people left.

According to common sense, there are 340,000 troops guarding Lin'an City, and in the face of the 700,000 Mongolian army, it should not be a problem to hold on for 12 days. After all, the puppet army, auxiliary army and other miscellaneous troops of the Mongol army have been exhausted, and even the return artillery has suffered heavy losses, and it is difficult to replicate the siege tactics at the beginning.

In a hard-fought siege, the Mongol army did not have the upper hand.

It is precisely because of this that after the raid battle, a whirlwind of light enemies blew in Lin'an City, and even Chun Shenjun and others were optimistic about this battle.

But somehow, Ouyang Shuo always felt uneasy in his heart.

As soon as the war ended, at Ouyang Shuo's insistence, the Military Aircraft Department did not really relax its vigilance, and in the past two days, it has been arranged to go out to scout and grasp the movements of the Mongolian army at any time.

Soon, the Mongol army's wanton capture of the Han Chinese people was reported to the military aircraft.

"What are they going to do, and then arrange for the Han people to build earthen forts?" Ouyang Shuo was very puzzled, how could the Mongolian cavalry dare to attack the city without the puppet army charging ahead.

If that is the case, Ouyang Shuo is not afraid, relying on the seized grain and grass materials, Lin'an can hold on until the expiration of January, and then all problems will be solved.

In the hall, the expressions of Zhang Shijie and Wen Tianxiang suddenly became solemn. "I'm afraid it's not that simple." Wen Tianxiang's face was extremely ugly.

Ouyang Shuo's eyes froze, and he asked, "Did you think of anything?" ”

Xiongba and the others also looked at it together.

Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie glanced at each other, and said in a deep voice: "According to the combat habits of the Mongolian army, they coerce the people, in addition to building earthen forts and refining corpse oil, there is also a tactic, which is to drive the people away, force us to open the city gate, and let the people into the city. As soon as the gates were opened, the Mongol army would take advantage of the situation. ”

Xiongba asked, "In that case, why didn't they use such tactics in the early days?" "No matter how you look at it, the latter tactic is more convenient and effective than the former, and the Xiongba can't understand why the Mongols are reluctant to seek the near and far.

Zhang Shijie replied first: "Generally speaking, the defenders of the city would rather watch the people outside the city being shot by the Mongols than open the city gates. Therefore, this tactic was difficult to work and was not the first choice of the Mongols. It's just that we didn't attack the earthen fort before, and the Mongols saw through the reality at once. ”

“……”

The atmosphere in the hall was a little weird.

Zhang Shijie's words were not in favor of being too merciful to the people outside the city, and when he voted on whether to attack the earth fort, Zhang Shijie voted in favor.

At present, Lu Xiufu has been sacrificed, and there are only six people left in the Military Aircraft Department, Ouyang Shuo, Guo Ziyi and Wen Tianxiang are determined not to support refusing to allow the people to enter the city, so no matter how to vote, Zhang Shijie is a loser.

The best outcome is a tie and a stalemate.

Unexpectedly, this time Xiongba took the initiative to stand up, "Since you have done it, you must persevere, if the Mongols really want to use such despicable tactics, then we can only fight them to the death in the city." ”

Zhang Shijie glanced at Xiongba in surprise, and his face became more and more ugly. Xiongba's statement is tantamount to completely blocking another possibility. As soon as he thought of the 700,000 Mongolian army entering Lin'an City, Zhang Shijie felt a pain in his heart.

Ouyang Shuo was calm, and said with a smile: "There is a way to defend the city, and if you don't defend the city, there is a way not to defend the city, if we can defeat the Mongol army once, we can defeat them twice." ”

"It's light to say, how can you fight if you don't defend the city?" Zhang Shijie is not so optimistic.

Seeing that Zhang Shijie seemed to be intent on making things difficult for the king, Jia Xu stood up decisively and said, "General Zhang doesn't need to be discouraged, I have a way for you to refer to it." ”

"Sir, please speak!"

Whoever here doesn't know the name of Jia Xu's "poisoner" has high expectations for Jia Xu.

Jia Xu said: "My king is right, if you don't defend the city, there is a way not to defend the city. Since we have concluded that the enemy will use the tactics of driving the people to attack the city, we will simply open a gate and let the people in. ”

"What happens when you open the door?" Zhang Shijie asked.

"It's very simple, when you open a city gate, you should place a large army outside the gate in advance to act as a human wall to prevent enemy troops from entering the city through gaps."

Jia Xu's method is fresh.

Zhang Shijie still has doubts, "I calculated, if the army deployed outside the city wants not to be wiped out by the Mongolian army, at least 200,000 will be transferred, so that the city will be empty as soon as it comes, and how can it defend the city?" ”

When Ouyang Shuo saw this, his expression suddenly became solemn, and although his voice did not improve, he added a few hints of killing intent out of thin air, "How to defend Lin'an City is not only a matter of the army, but also not just a matter of our Inhuman Legion. ”

"We have to make it clear to the millions of people in the city that once the city of Lin'an is broken, the Mongols will definitely slaughter the city, and if they want not to be lambs to be slaughtered, everyone will have to spontaneously contribute to the war."

"If you want to live, you have to rely on yourself after all."

Zhang Shijie listened, and a trace of shame flashed on his face. Yes, the people of Lin'an, and even the entire Southern Song Dynasty, relied too much on the Inhuman Legion, and they even forgot that the Inhuman Legion was just a guest, and they were the real masters of this city. How can there be a time of life and death, just let the guests charge forward, but the host is indifferent.

Ouyang Shuo didn't care, and continued: "There are not enough defenders in the city, so we will temporarily recruit young and middle-aged people to enlist." If they have no weapons, they will go to the battlefield outside the city to find themselves; There was no timber or stone to defend the city, so they demolished the houses in the city. If there is no oil, the vegetable oil of each household will be concentrated; There was no iron ore to forge arrows, so they smashed all the pots and pans at home. ”

"We must make the people of the whole city realize that this is not a simple battle to defend the city, but a battle of life and death related to the survival of civilization, and in order to win, we can do whatever it takes to gamble everything!"

Ouyang Shuo said impassionedly, everyone present was deeply shocked, this is by no means a high-sounding word, but Ouyang Shuo's heartfelt words.

One of the reasons for the collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty in history was that the entire nation lacked the determination to gamble on everything.

If it is changed to Han Tang, it will definitely not be so embarrassing.

Ouyang Shuo's feelings were very profound in this battle, so he had the above words, and he was convinced that only by mobilizing the strength of the entire city could the victory of this battle have real significance.

Otherwise, it's just a passing moment.