The new army of the Yuan army, Wanhu Tuman, looked at the battlefield with the fire, and his heart had fallen to the bottom. This was no longer known how many attacks he launched, with more than 3,000 people killed or injured, but he only broke through the two towers set up by the Song army at the entrance of the valley. What made him hold his breath was not only heavy casualties, but also extremely uncomfortable with the Song army's tactics.

Four days ago, when Wanhu Mansion in Hangzhou received a Song army warship from the canal into the old Song imperial tomb area, they just took it as a joke. You must know that Jiangnan has been pacified for many years, and the remnants of Song Dynasty could only survive on the small island of Qiongzhou overseas. How to have the courage to go deep into the hinterland of Jiangnan alone? This is not just a bored life, but with the continuous urgent news of the provinces and counties in various places, I realized that the matter is true.

Since the matter is true, of course, we have to send troops to suppress the enemy, but Wanhu Mansion found that no one came to issue an order. At this time, the news of the Khan's death in Kaiping had already been heard, but the plan for stability was not made public. I wanted to wait until the new emperor ascends the throne before talking. The princes guarding everywhere went north on the grounds of visiting the disease. The King of Zhennan Tuohuan was no exception and had led troops from Ezhou.

You should know that the princes guarding a place have great power and control the military and political affairs of the place. The most important one is military power. Without the token of the royal palace, it is impossible to mobilize the army. However, if there are enemies, they cannot sit idly by. So they report the situation to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and request troops to be sent to suppress the enemy. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are located in Jiankang, Hangzhou is the old capital of the Song Dynasty and is also an economic center. Moreover, the Jiangnan religious general Yang Lianzhenjia also fell into the enemy's hands. The province did not dare to neglect it, so they ordered Wanhu Mansion to quickly pacify and rescue it. This trip took a lot of time.

At present, only the Shangdu New Army Wanhu House stationed in Hangzhou, and Shaoxing was also their jurisdiction. The Song army that had entered the country was responsible for destroying the incoming Song army. However, Tuman was not active in this regard. You should know that Shangdu Wanhu was originally affiliated with Mengge's old subordinate, but after his death, his son failed to inherit the Khan throne, but instead let Kublai Khan rob it. So Shangdu Wanhu was demoted from the emperor's personal army to the ordinary Wanhu House, which made Tuman, who inherited the ancestral position, unhappy. What was even more difficult to accept was that Kublai Khan broke the ancestral system and passed the Khan throne to his son.

After that, Shangdu Wanhu participated in a series of battles to pacify Jiangnan and made countless military achievements. However, Tuman found that even so, it was still difficult to gain Kublai Khan's trust. During this reorganization, Shangdu Wanhu was divided into two new and old armies. The old army returned to Shangdu's old land to resist the rebellious kings, while the new army was stationed in Hangzhou. Not only was the combat effectiveness weakened, the new army incorporated was also in disagreement with him, and it was thought that it was a secret defense.

After receiving the order, Tuman sent orders to gather troops stationed in the surrounding prefectures and counties, while collecting intelligence, he learned that the army was personally led by the remnant Song Guang, and the disaster was caused by the monk Yang Lianzhenjia's robbery of the former Song imperial tomb. He thought that since the Song army would not stay for a long time, now that Yang Lianzhenjia has been captured, it must be a lot of danger and will definitely not come out. So he thought that when he withdraws his troops, he can take the opportunity to raid and intercept and kill them to achieve success.

But unexpectedly, the Song army not only did not rush to evacuate, but instead stationed to repair the imperial tomb for a long time, and Tuman had to send troops to attack. However, the battle was awkward at the beginning. The Song army occupied the valley entrance, which was narrow and was not conducive to the movement of the cavalry, so they could only forcibly advance forward. Tuman did not care too much about this. After all, the impression of the Song army's weak combat power had long been a consensus, and his lonely army would definitely evacuate quickly after being attacked.

Unexpectedly, they encountered a hard nail in the battle. The Song army relied on sharp firearms to defend themselves. Their firearms had a long range and were powerful. They often had heavy casualties before they rushed into the range of the bow and arrow and were unable to attack any further. Due to the limitations of the terrain, they could not harass the enemy from the flanks and the rear. After fighting hard for one day, a team of thousands of people was caught in but failed to break through the valley entrance.

The next day, Tuman issued a fierce order for the cavalry to attack in turn regardless of casualties. Finally, in the evening, the Song army forced the Song army to give up their positions and retreat into the valley. He wanted to take the entire mausoleum area in one go, but was disappointed. The Song army was not in chaos at all. Instead, they used extremely strict formations to cover the retreat, and did not give him a chance to break the formation. As a result, with the support of subsequent troops, he calmly retreated to the next line of defense, leaving not even a body for himself. However, his side suffered heavy losses and almost stepped into the valley with the corpse of his companions.

However, after breaking through the valley entrance, the terrain suddenly became clear. Tuman finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was able to use his own advantages to attack the enemy in multiple ways, and the heavy casualties also aroused the ferociousness. On the third day, he launched a fierce attack again, constantly attacking the Song army's defense line, and broke into the enemy's position several times, but he only had a brief panic and stabilized his position. He was also brave and fearless in the hand-to-hand combat, and he fought hard and defeated his cavalry with a "spray".

By early this morning, Tuman discovered that the Song army took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield while nightfall and retreated to the next line of defense. Looking at the more strict position than before, his morale plummeted, and all the troops were unwilling to fight again. Tuman saw that the founding brigade led by him was actually frightened, and he was furious and killed two centurions in a row, and finally forced them to go into battle again.

Although you could already see the tall treasure top of the imperial tomb at this time, looking at the simple city where the war horses could leaps up, and seeing the bodies of people filling the trenches in front of the enemy city, it was difficult to advance under the dense and fierce artillery fire of the Song army. The morale of each unit was extremely low, and they would be frightened when they heard the sound of guns and cannons, and they had no fighting spirit at all. Looking at the soldiers who fled back in all directions immediately as soon as the sound of the cannon sounded, Tuman knew that his 10,000 team had been crippled and he was powerless to fight again, otherwise there would be a possibility of a mutiny.

After nearly half of the casualties, Tuman ordered the attack to stop defending on the spot to prevent the enemy from "breaking through". On the other hand, he immediately asked Wanhu Mansion in Hangzhou for help, requesting quick dispatch of reinforcements and sending more artillery troops to come. He requested blockade of the canal and prevent the enemy from going north to invade Shaoxing and threatening Hangzhou. At the same time, he recruited adult males from Wanhu Mansion to supplement the losses and prepare for another battle...

When the two sides fought fiercely, the ceremony of sacrifice for the tomb was also held as scheduled. Zhao Bing wore a crown garment and spread out the ceremonial guards. The main priest Chen Zhongwei accompanied the sacrifices of Xu Zongren and Ma Tingluan and all the officials of the escorts to follow the Shinto Road. They went to the North and South Festivals to hold the first offering, the Asian offering and the three offerings. The offerings were raw pigs, raw sheep, and one drink of blessing meat, three animals, six bells of wine, six bowls of rice, four kinds of fruits, ten pieces of paper and silk, ten pieces of hot and hot, one thousand pieces of flakes, two pieces of ruler paper, four pairs of candles, and one incense.

Chen Zhongwei read the sacrificial text and then burned it. Zhao Bing led the important officials to pay tribute to the sacrifice. Finally, he brought Yang Lianzhenjia and his group to the hall to count their evil deeds. Although he did not make it into a dry chicken according to the harsh words that Zhao Bing put down, he did not escape a knife and killed all a hundred people in front of the tomb. He presented the heads of Yang Lianzhenjia and Zong Yun on the altar in front of the tomb. Then he divided the sacrifices with everyone...

The grand ceremony of the tomb sacrifice ended, and everyone was even more proud of melancholy. Although this grand sacrifice cannot be said to be the most shabby and simple one among the dynasties, it is definitely the most adventurous one. It rushed thousands of miles to break into the hinterland of the occupied area and completed the festival among the enemies. Such a feat in his life can comfort his life. Unlike everyone's excitement, Zhao Bing understood that the festival was just the beginning, and his plan to "hide the world and cross the sea" was just beginning.

Concealing the world is the first strategy at the beginning of "Thirty-Six Strategies", which means that by repeatedly making false actions, the enemy will regard false appearances as the essence of things. Then, using the opponent to misjudgment of the illusion created by us, and suddenly launching new actions will cause the opponent to fall into a passive position. The notation is: "Conspiracy cannot be carried out in secret places. Stealing in the middle of the night, killing people in remote alleys, and doing foolish things is not what the strategist does." In a deep explanation, it is a real strategy, and it must not be as vulgar as "deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates" or stealing in the night and killing people in the dark.

Zhao Bing disagreed with this. He thought that both of them both contain secret and deceptive natures, but their motives and natures are different, and their means are different. First, they deliberately create false phenomena to mislead opponents and use false appearances to cover up their true purpose; secondly, they achieve their true purpose through a series of actions, which only makes the realm appear to be more profound.

In Zhao Bing's mind, wisdom has two sides and contains two opposite properties, namely: Yin and Yang. He prefers to define strategy as conspiracy. Although people usually define this word as a derogatory term, it is actually all about Yin being hidden and Yang being obvious. Therefore, strategy can be divided into conspiracy and conspiracy in terms of its form.

Conspiracy is not a derogatory term in the general sense, but from the perspective of strategy application, it refers to those secretly launched and unpublic schemes. The form of conspiracy here is inconsistent with its content, that is, the form of conspiracy covers the content. The so-called conspiracy refers to strategies in which form and content are consistent. Everyone knows the purpose of this strategy, but even if it is carried out in a dignified manner, it can achieve the effect the conspirator wants.

Zhao Bing's tomb protection action was clearly seen as protecting the ancestral tomb, like an impulse act. This also belongs to the category of "Yang", but it is just to cover up the real purpose and is not perceived by everyone. Although the Shangdu tens of thousands of households stationed in Hangzhou are attracted to this and severely damaged it, it is far from reaching his own goal. What bothers him was that the Yuan army blocked the access to the outside world, making it difficult for outside news to be transmitted, and sending messengers to go out, making it difficult for him to make further judgments on the situation.

In this case, Zhao Bing could not take action against the enemy troops besieging the mausoleum area, and could only use a strategy of waiting for the effort to confront the enemy. Although this might attract the enemy to this point and reduce the pressure on other units, it would also cause him to lose his motivation and put him in a dangerous place. If he didn't do it well, he would really let the enemy swallow his bait, which would be a big loss.

"Your Majesty, Master Zheng has arrived." Just as Zhao Bing was worried, Wang De entered the palace to report.

"Come him in!" Zhao Bing was surprised and full of surprise when he heard this, and suddenly stood up and said.

"Yes!" Wang De immediately jogged out and notified that the little emperor actually used the word "please", which shows how urgent he dared to neglect it.

"See Your Majesty!" Zheng Huchen saw the little emperor standing at the gate of the hall, walking a few steps to pay homage.

"Quickly, how can you make it like this?" Zhao Bing raised his hand and supported him, but Zheng Huchen in front of him was ragged and dirty. He could not tell if he was not familiar with him.

"I am rude, and dressing up like this is a helpless move. At present, the Yuan army around Shaoxing has set up chucks everywhere, so I have to do this!" Zheng Huchen said with a wry smile.

"You shouldn't take risks. If I lose you, a general, it's like cutting off one of my arms!" Zhao Bing said with a stern face after hearing this.

"Your Majesty is not afraid of hardships, how dare I slack off? I haven't heard of Your Majesty for a long time, so I can't sleep or eat!" Zheng Huchen said again.

"Wang De, take Master Zheng to wash in advance, then find some clean clothes to change into it, and make some food to fill your stomach." Zhao Bing sighed and raised his hand to let him get up, then turned to order Wang Dedao.

After a while, Zheng Huchen packed up and ate some food, he came to see His Majesty again, and told the situation outside the world to the little emperor. Now Wen Tianxiang and others are all ready, but they have not obtained the next order and can only stay dormant for the time being; and the army led by Lu Xiufu has arrived as scheduled and is waiting for the opportunity outside the sea. Dong Yicheng's troops had several small-scale conflicts with the Yuan navy, which made the enemy mistakenly think that it was a restraining action to cover Zhao Bing's sacrificial tomb. Generally speaking, the enemy has not yet discovered our army's strategic intentions.

On the other hand, it was confirmed that Kublai Khan was dead, and his sons rushed to Helin at night. Zhenjin was sick and supervised the country. He wanted to summon a group of confidants who were left behind in Dadu to assist him in ascending the throne, but was blocked by Queen Nanbi and could not leave the capital. Many Mongolian sect kings in Helin had long been dissatisfied with Zhenjin's favor on Han Confucianism, and their attitude towards supporting him in succession was not clear, as if they were waiting for the kings to come.

In addition, Empress Nanbi, who remained in the capital, was also very restless. He summoned the ministers in the capital to exercise power to supervise the country, but was resisted by the Han ministers and opposed it on the name of having the crown prince as soon as possible. Empress Nanbi immediately began to suppress the Han ministers, adjust the structural system of the court officials, and promoted a group of close Mongolian and Semu people to support their supervise.
Chapter completed!