Ten days later, at night, the simple "Golden Palace" of Yashan was brightly lit.

The rain was still falling outside, and it was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was still blowing, blowing more and more fiercely.

After days of heavy rain, Zhang Hongfan was injured again, so he did not call for war for ten days.

After Jiang Cheng was captured, there was no news, and it was not known whether he was alive or dead. What should we do next? Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu, the concubine, and the 100 officials in the Golden Palace all felt confused, but Zhao Yu sat on the dragon chair in a daze, as if he had nothing to do with himself.

The emperor was young, and the concubine was a woman after all, so all foreign affairs were handed over to Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu was responsible for internal affairs, and these two were the actual commanders of the Song Dynasty. And the war against the enemy depends on Jiang Cheng's Jiang family army, and now that Jiang Cheng has been captured, it is like a spear without a spear head to the Song Dynasty, how can people not be anxious?

What's more, the kid in the Tartar army is really powerful, it only took three moves to capture Jiang Cheng alive, plus a group of well-trained grassland hungry wolves that he can command, which makes him like a tiger, and no one can resist the entire Yashan City, and I am afraid that few people in the world can defeat him.

Lu Xiufu spoke first: "In the past ten days, we have been here every day from morning to night to discuss the method of retreating from the enemy. ”

Ministers, you look at me, I look at you, they all lowered their heads, and then shook again, no one spoke, but the meaning is obvious, after so many days of deliberation without results, what else can we do? .

Seeing that the officials were silent, Lu Xiufu said again: "You can stay at this critical time of survival and stay, which shows that everyone is loyal, and I hope everyone will contribute to the Great Song Dynasty, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, let's just discuss it slowly." ”

Seeing that there was still no answer, he said sharply: "In that case, don't go back to rest, think here, until you think about it." ”

The officials listened to him harshly, some thought about good strategies, some were ashamed of their incompetence, and some were disgruntled, and then resentful, but still no one spoke.

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Shijie suddenly said: "I thought of a method that can make the Mongolian cavalry and wolves useless. ”

Everyone immediately turned their attention to Zhang Shijie, and Zhang Shijie said: "I just don't know if this method is feasible, and I ask the concubine to decide." ”

The concubine and Lu Xiufu said in unison: "But it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Zhang Shijie put his hands behind his back, stood up, and walked back and forth on the Golden Palace a few times, although this kind of behavior is absolutely rude in normal times, but he is the emperor's teacher, and now he is in a national disaster, and he is in power, and everyone is not surprised by his behavior.

Zhang Shijie walked a few steps, stopped and said: "The Tartars are just spears and fierce horses, in the past, our city was high, and Li Heng couldn't do anything about us." Now although Zhang Hongfan is here, and he has brought a powerful young general, and replaced the fierce horses with wolves, it doesn't hurt as long as we only defend and don't attack them. It's just that the heavy rain has been too fierce in the past few days, and when I and the prime minister visited the city today, the northeast corner of the city has been washed away by the rain. ”

The concubine asked nervously, "Then did you send someone to repair it?"

Zhang Shijie arched his hand and said: "Concubine Qiyu, the prime minister has already sent someone," Zhang Shijie paused for a moment, and continued: "It's just that the project is slow, if Zhang Hongfan knows that he will definitely lead the army to attack, I am afraid that this small city will not be protected at that time." ”

Everyone has a sense that a catastrophe is about to come when they hear this, you must know that Jiang Cheng was captured, the Song army has no generals to rely on, if the city wall collapses, Zhang Hongfan, Li Heng and the two people are attacking, who can resist?

Only then did the hundred officials know why Lu Xiufu told them to come up with a way today, it turned out that the matter had reached such a serious point, and everyone unconsciously turned their eyes to Lu Xiufu. Expressing his understanding of what he had just said, Lu Xiufu sighed.

Zhang Shijie continued: "I thought about it for a long time, and I only thought of one way......

The concubine hurriedly asked: "What way? Surrender?" Because there was a lesson from the past, the emperor did not execute after surrendering, and Kublai Khan also made him an idle official, so the concubine often had the heart to surrender and save her life.

Zhang Shijie guessed the concubine's intentions and said: "No, I can still save my life if my courtiers surrender, and maybe we can also be knighted, but the concubine and Banzai will definitely die if they surrender in a desperate situation, who knows that Kublai Khan will not be treacherous? ”

The concubine knew that Zhang Shijie and others were loyal and vowed to revive the Great Song Dynasty, but she said the word surrender at this time, how could she be worthy of them, and she was ashamed, so she stopped talking.

"The way I came up with is to ......," Zhang Shijie said word by word, "abandon ...... City ......"

When the officials heard this, they were in an uproar, and there were many discussions in the court, Zhang Shijie said: "After listening to me, Zhang Hongfan's reinforcements came from afar, and they must not have prepared warships. We have more than 2,000 warships, and we have abandoned the city for the time being, and built a water fortress on the sea, each of which is threaded with iron chains, so that the Tartar cavalry and wolves will have no use. ”

"Absolutely not", as soon as Zhang Shijie's voice fell, a person walked in outside the door, and everyone saw that it was Jiang Cheng. In surprise, Jiang Cheng said again: "Absolutely not." ”

Lu Xiufu stepped forward and shook Jiang Cheng's hand and said, "How did the general come back?"

Who knew that Jiang Cheng threw off Lu Xiufu and ignored it, and said to Zhang Shijie: "In the past, Cao Cao's army of the Three Kingdoms defeated Chibi because of the connection of warships into a water village. ”

Zhang Shijie said: "How could I not know that the enemy is in the way or take fire to attack? But now that the troops are approaching the city, the cliffs and mountains are in danger, if a water village is built on the sea, although it cannot repel the enemy army, it can be safely guarded for a while." Besides, since we knew that the enemy would attack with fire, how could we not take precautions, but we could make the defenders wet with mud and hold long poles, so that when the enemy ships attacked, they only needed a long pole to drive the enemy ships away. When connecting the warship, the iron chain is made into a live buckle, which can be removed, and if it is at the last moment, you only need to open the chain, and the soldiers can escape. ”

Jiang Cheng still insisted: "The last general still thinks that this matter is inappropriate, once the officers and men of our army abandon the Yashan, our Great Song Dynasty will have no land of half an inch, and at that time how will the military salaries be raised? At that time, our army and the people will have no rescuers outside, no grain and grass inside, and the army's morale will be chaotic.

Zhang Shijie was originally an official under Zhang Hongfan, and later defected to the Great Song Dynasty, although he was loyal, but he was most disgusted with others' suspicion of him, saying that he had bad intentions, although Jiang Cheng's words did not mean this, but they sounded extremely harsh to him. At this time, he was in a high position and domineering, and he was quite disgusted by the opposition, and he had never been on good terms with Jiang Cheng, so he interrupted without waiting for Jiang Cheng to finish speaking: "General Jiang, do you mean that I have ill intentions?"

Jiang Cheng was about to explain, but Zhang Shijie interrupted him: "You were captured in the Tartar army, how can the Tartars easily let you back, could it be that you have already surrendered to the Tartars?"

Jiang Chengdan was a piece, he didn't expect to be questioned by Zhang Shijie, although he usually had quarrels with him, but it was all for official business, knowing that Zhang Shijie rejected him, and the enemy was currently thinking about personal grievances, and said such slanderous words to him, he suddenly felt that his heart was on fire, and he glared at Zhang Shijie angrily: "I met the person who sent the letter with arrows before in the Tartar army, and it is inconvenient to say who he is at this moment, and I will know in the future, it is this person who released me." My Jiang family is full of loyalty, and I can't imagine that I will be slandered by villains. If you give up Yashan, I'm afraid you, Mrs. Zhang, will become a sinner in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

The more the two talked, the more intense their words became, and all the officials did not dare to intervene, even the concubine did not know what to do. Lu Xiufu thought to himself, when the Great Song Dynasty was alive and dead, these two people were pivotal figures, saying that Jiang Cheng rebelled, Lu Xiufu would not believe it anyway, Zhang Shijie would bow down to himself since he surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and there would never be two hearts, the two of them were arguing with each other, which was bound to hurt the harmony, and he hurriedly persuaded loudly: "The two of you are angry, I have something to say." ”

The two stopped arguing at this time, but they stood against each other, each angry, Lu Xiufu said: "The two don't have to argue, Taifu's plan is very good, what Brother Jiang said is also reasonable, I think I will leave the Jiang family army to continue to repair the city wall in Yashan, and the rest of the soldiers and their families will be stationed in the water village, I don't know what the two of you think? ”

The concubine has never had a big idea, and when she heard that Lu Xiufu's words were very reasonable, she replied: "What Lu Qing said is very much in line with the mourning family's wishes. ”

"The prime minister doesn't need to say much," Jiang Cheng said angrily: "Jiang Cheng is loyal, the sky can learn from it, and no one can slander it." After that, he turned around, brushed his sleeves, and left, although Zhao Yu and the concubine were here, he also left without regard to the courtesy of the monarch and the minister.

Zhao Yu and the concubine were displeased, and Lu Xiufu couldn't help but excuse him a few words, finally now that the enemy is now, it is the time to employ people, and no one will be held accountable.

Since the concubine spoke, naturally the matter was decided. That night, the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty prepared to build a water village, and only the Jiang army continued to garrison Yashan.

Zhang Shijie has protected the Song Dynasty for many years, during which he has made great contributions, and has fought countless small battles, just looking forward to building a water village and continuing to compete with the Mongolian army, but he never thought that this sea trip was really Jiang Cheng's words, and the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was cut off.

In a few days, the water village was built, and the rain stopped. The Yuan army had already returned to Zhang Hongfan. Zhang Hongfan suffered internal injuries because he was shot by Jiang Zheng, and he has been bedridden for half a month to recuperate, and the pain in his shoulder is unbearable, vomiting blood every night, and he can't sleep.

Because Li Heng was sent to Guangzhou to collect warships, it has been raining continuously in the past few days, so no one went to Yashan to start an army.

Beside him was the young general who captured Jiang Cheng alive, he was the son of Zhang Hongfan, named Zhang Qi.

This Zhang Qi is very talented, it is said that when he was eight years old, he could shoot a tiger with a bow, Zhang Hongfan passed on all what he had learned all his life to him, and later got a Taoist outside the world to guide him, and his martial arts were much higher than Zhang Hongfan.

After Zhang Jue waited for the horse to retreat, he turned to Zhang Hongfan and said: "Dad, Zhang Shijie used iron locks to connect the boat, didn't he bring about his own destruction? Thinking about the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's million soldiers and horses defeated Chibi...... Why don't we follow the example of the ancients and attack with fire?"

Zhang Hongfan held his shoulder with one hand, sat up sideways, and said, "That's right, but since the Jiang family army is stationed in Yashan City, it is very well guarded, and it is a big obstacle to entering the sea." ”

Zhang Qi's face was angry: "I don't know who let him go, why didn't my father kill him and his surname Wen earlier, so as to prevent future troubles?"

Zhang Hongfan Zhengse said: "Did I kill less people in my early years? These people are all loyal and righteous people, and the more they kill, the more people will resist. It is easy to destroy the two of them, but it is not easy to destroy the Song people's anti-Yuan heart, and we can't kill everyone. ”

Zhang Hongfan knew that this kid was very angry and had high martial arts, and if he was allowed to continue like this, he would definitely become the biggest disaster for the imperial court in the future, so he continued: "You always want to kill people, so how can you be a good official of the people in the future? It seems that I have to find you a teacher to teach you well." ”

Zhang Jue didn't think so, but it was inconvenient to say what he thought in his heart. Instead, he asked, "Since Yashan is heavily guarded, how can we attack?"

Zhang Hongfan said: "A few days before I became my father, when I first came, I saw a mountain opposite Yashan, called Bottle Mountain. Tomorrow you will accompany me there to see. Zhang Jue agreed.

Zhang Hongfan came to the bottle mountain with his son the next day, and saw that the repair of the Yashan city wall had been completed, thinking that if it weren't for the heavy rain in the past few days, he was injured, I am afraid that he would have been able to conquer Yashan a long time ago, but he didn't expect the Jiang family's army to move so quickly.

Look at the sea again, the Song army really built a water village, more than 1,000 warships, lined up in a line, very grand, the yellow flag on the largest ship in the center is displayed, it must be the Chinese army, the emperor of the Song Dynasty Zhao Yu must be there.

Zhang Hongfan smiled and said to Zhang Jue: "I thought of a plan for my father." ”

Zhang Qi asked, "What strategy?"

Zhang Hongfan said: "You see that the location of the Song army's water village is wrong, it is far away from the mountain city, the Song army must pass through the estuary between Yashan and Bottle Mountain every day, we sent troops to guard there, first cut off the Song army's waterway, mess with its military morale, and when Li Heng came back from Guangzhou to take the boat, he asked him to call the battle in Yashan City every day to paralyze the enemy. Then our army attacked the east and west, ostensibly attacking Yashan, but in fact, entering the sea from Bottle Mountain, and adopting the method of fire attack, Zhang Shijie will be eliminated and Zhao Yu captured alive. ”

Zhang Jue gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Dad, you are worthy of being handsome." It's just that what about Jiang Cheng?"

Zhang Hongfan said: "If the fire is successful, how can Jiang Cheng not go out of the city to rescue, and then he can send someone to arrest him again." ”

Zhang Jue was overjoyed when he heard this.

The two of them have made a decision, and as soon as the warship arrives, they will take the water village in one go.

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