Chapter 45: Rebel Generals Persuading Surrender (1)

The king commands the commander, commands the general, commands the soldiers. Not to mention ancient times, even in modern wars, the same was true.

Even Zhuge Liang, who was as good as a god, had to rely on the generals below.

The Song Dynasty was weak, and Zhao Dongting was willing to give these generals a chance to train. If he was defeated, he would at most die. If he could come to the Song Dynasty, his life would be like to pick it up. These days, he has been mentally prepared.

In the following nights, no one on the island of Benzhou did not sleep too well, as if even the air was filled with a strong murderous aura.

Zhao Dongting repeatedly pondered and thought about his own war strategy, but found no more omissions.

He has tried his best. If he still loses this way, it can only be said to be God's will.

All the people on the island of Benzhou have long been withdrawn, and the remaining civil servants and military families gathered in the palace.

Late at night, a blazing flame suddenly burned at the highest peak of Benzhou Island.

The Yuan army finally arrived.

This bonfire is a signal from the lookout.

For a moment, the sound of desolate horns rang everywhere on Benzhou Island.

The guard outside Zhao Dongting’s door exclaimed: “Master, the bonfire is on fire!”

Zhao Dongting jumped up from the bed, listened to the sound of the horn, and ran out wearing clothes.

Li Yuanxiu hurriedly followed.

These days, he was worried that the Yuan army would send masters to attack, so he slept in Zhao Dongting's house.

Run to the edge of the cliff.

Zhao Dongting looked with a telescope and saw that the Yuan army warships were densely packed in the night, and they were rushing towards the island of Benzhou.

The survival of the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty has arrived.

Many people ran out of the palace and watched the sea from the cliff. However, the night was thick and there was no telescope, but they couldn't see clearly.

Zhao Dongting stood in front, with a serious face and no words.

Looking at the Yuan army's warships, there must be hundreds of ships, which are obviously coming.

I had never seen such a scene before, and Zhao Dongting just thought about it in his mind, but didn't feel that it was too shocking. Now that I saw it with my own eyes, I found that the army of tens of thousands of people could really make people feel scared. The vast momentum came like dark clouds.

"The black clouds are over the city... the city is about to destroy..."

Zhao Dongting held the telescope and stared at the Yuan army's warship without moving.

Not long after, Concubine Yang also came over, feeling sorry for her son, and hurried back to take the cloak and put it on for Zhao Dongting.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the Yuan army warships stopped along the coast of Benzhou Island. Their warships were arranged in an orderly manner and were obviously well-trained.

But they did not attack immediately.

The Yuan army was on the deck of the commander's ship, with guards standing in front of him, and two men were sitting and drinking.

The man on the left had long beard and chest, thick eyebrows and big eyes, extraordinary appearance and extremely majestic. It was Zhang Hongfan, the commander of the Yuan army.

The man sitting opposite him had a bloated figure and a fair face, but his eyes were shining, and he was the deputy commander Li Heng.

The battle was about to happen, but the two of them were calm and calm, talking and laughing.

Neither of them was considered true Yuan Dynasty people, so their relationship in the court was also very good.

Emperor Kublai Khan was famous for employing people, so he did not care about sending these private friends to the chief and deputy commander.

For this, there were many foreign generals and surrendered generals of the Southern Song Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, and they were very grateful to Kublai Khan. Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were the two.

Zhang Hongfan raised his hand and pointed at Benzhou Island and said to Li Heng: "Brother Li Heng thinks, how long can we capture this Benzhou Island?"

Li Heng smiled and said, "The child emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty is only 20,000 troops around him. Even if he resists stubbornly, he cannot resist our army for more than two days."

Zhang Hongfan said softly and said with great interest: "Then how should our army be arranged?"

"hehe."

Li Heng picked up the wine glass and said, "Brother Hongfan is trying to find out me. I believe there is a good idea in my heart... I will definitely be besieged in the city?"

As he said that, he also pointed to the island of Benzhou, "The Song army's warships are all on that side, but you choose to land on this side, not to erase their last hopes. It seems that the Song monarchs and ministers still have some hope in their hearts. When we launch an attack, they cannot resist and will choose to board the ship and escape. At that time, we can easily catch up with the speed of the sea boats, so that all the Song monarchs and ministers will die in the belly of fish."

"Those who know me, Brother Li Heng..."

Zhang Hongfan sighed, raised his glasses and clinked with Li Heng, but said again: "However, I don't plan to give them a chance to board the ship."

"oh?"

Li Heng was slightly surprised.

Zhang Hongfan said proudly: "Our army has two roads, land and land. Just need the soldiers on the island to hold back their tails when the emperor and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty fled, and the warships then detoured from here and attacked on both sides. Brother Li Heng thought, would the Song army still have the possibility of boarding the ship?"

Li Heng bowed, "Brother Hongfan is a masterpiece, Li Heng is ashamed of himself..."

The two of them were drinking and talking about military affairs, as if they didn't take the Southern Song army to heart.

While the Southern Song army was extremely afraid of the Yuan army, this also led to the contempt of the Southern Song army by the Yuan Dynasty.

Until dawn, the Yuan army had not attacked. Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng, the two commanders, even went back to the cabin to sleep.

On the cliff, there were still ministers and nobles standing in the Southern Song Dynasty court.

The flag of the Yuan army sways in the hazy morning light.

Zhao Dongting hasn't gone back to rest yet.

Seeing that the sky had already brightened and the Yuan army was not attacking, Zhang Shijie asked from the side: "Emperor, what is the Yuan army's intention?"

In fact, he was still somewhat speculative in his mind. He asked this deliberately, which was somewhat concise about Zhao Dongting's meaning.

Zhao Dongting chuckled softly and said, "I just want to intimidate our army and make our soldiers unable to rest. When our soldiers are tired, they will attack again, and then they will achieve twice the result with half the effort."

When Zhang Shijie heard this, he couldn't help but admire the emperor for being so talented.

Then, he said, "What should our army do?"

Zhao Dongting found that Zhang Shijie was testing him and asked with a smile: "What should Lord Zhang do if he thinks he should do it?"

Zhang Shijie was slightly surprised. He didn't expect the emperor to ask himself, but he was a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty. He had an idea in his mind and said, "The Yuan army is waiting for work, so our army should naturally wait and see. But... Emperor, when do you think the Yuan army will attack?"

Even he himself is not sure about this problem.

Zhao Dongting put down his telescope and said, "Let's go back and rest, so that the soldiers can rest as well. Whenever they are willing to attack, they will attack."

"ah?"

Zhang Shijie was stunned, "What should I do if the Yuan army attacks?"

Zhao Dongting pointed to the land of Benzhou and said, "We buried thunder everywhere here. I am not afraid of them coming, but I am afraid that they will not come."

Thunder was buried everywhere on Benzhou Island. Even if the soldiers of the Song Dynasty stayed in the palace and remained motionless, the Yuan army would have to pay a huge price to attack the mountain. There was no mine detector in this era, and the Yuan army would not clear mines. Zhao Dongting had this confidence in his heart.
Chapter completed!