Jinghu North Road, Anzhou, Dasheng Pass. ⊙

As night fell, looking down from a high place, I saw bonfires, and the north and south of the pass were covered with dark Mongolian military camps. From time to time, some heart-wrenching screams and cries came from the night, and the proud laughter of Mongolian warriors. Needless to say, the looted Song people were suffering from the torture of the barbarians in the camp.

As mentioned above, Mongolia killed extremely heavily when seizing the Han area in the north, and the population of the Han area in the north lost 90%, so that the prosperous and prosperous land in the past became a wasteland. A wasteland obviously could not meet the wealth demand of these grassland robbers. Therefore, the development of production in the north has always been a major event that King Kublai Khan, who ruled the Han area in the north, needs to consider. The solution that this generation of Mongolian people thought of was to send troops to capture the population on the land of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, every time the Mongolian army goes south, it will be burning, killing, looting, and captives. This does not mean that the Mongolian army has done little to kill, but only killing the old and weak, and capturing young and strong women as slaves. The army passes by like locusts passing through, leaving only a piece of white land.

At this time, Kublai Khan's military tent was filled with lights and footsteps. However, the commanders and above all rushed to Kublai Khan's tent.

As soon as the Mongolian general arrived, he saw King Kublai Khan sitting on a bed with a slight look on his face. Beside him, there was a man with a strange face, his cloth shirt was soaked in sweat, and he stood there with a tired look. It was obvious that this man came here on a long distance.

Seeing the summoned army coming to Qi, Kublai Khan waved his hand: "Yelu Zhu, say it again. Everyone listened carefully!"

When they heard Kublai Khan calling the man with a strange face to be Yelu Zhu, the military generals in the tent were shocked. How could they not know that Yelu Zhu was the second son of Yelu Chucai. They had been following Da Khan as the Minister of Secretariat. Now they ran to Da Sheng Pass in such a mess? Could it be that something happened to Da Khan?

Yelu Zhu agreed, with a very upset expression. He ran from Chengdu to Dasheng Pass, and six fast horses died along the way.

"…The Khan died in Sichuan!"

"What!"

"What did you say?"

The Mongolian generals in the tent jumped up all of a sudden. They looked at Yelu Zhu in disbelief. "Did the Great Khan... die of illness?" Someone asked in a trembling voice. Mengge Khan was commanding the army on the front line, and it would be better if he died of illness. The Song people were lucky enough to escape the current disaster. If they were beaten to death by the Song people, it would be a bit ugly. Could this western army be defeated?

"The Khan was...dead!" Yelu Zhu sighed, "It was blown away by Chen Dexing, the commander of the Nanbu River, with the Heavenly Thunder Arrow..."

"Sky Thunder Arrow!!!"

The Mongolian generals looked at each other. They had heard of Tianlei and encountered it on the battlefield. It was more powerful than the iron cannon and caused some losses to the infantry siege. However, this thing was not far away and it was not accurate. What happened to the Tianlei arrow?

"It is to use a thin iron pipe to install gunpowder, one end has a spear tip, the other end has a wooden pole, and then shoot it out with a three-bow bed crossbow. It can shoot it six or seven hundred steps away and then explode. This is how the sweat died!"

This is OK!? The Mongolian generals were all sucking in the cold air. There were also three-bow crossbows in the Mongolian army. Everyone knows how far the range of this thing is. The main functions of this weapon on the battlefield are two, one is to snipe the generals; the other is to shoot the city walls - giant arrows can be inserted into the city walls covered with bricks to facilitate soldiers to climb. However, although the three-bow crossbows are more accurate than shooting stones, it is still a matter of being very dependent on the character of the enemy generals when they are hundreds of steps. If it weren't for the master Changshengtian especially disliked, they would generally not be shot to death by the three-bow crossbows at such a long distance.

But if the giant arrow shot from the three-bow bed crossbow explodes, it would be like killing a general in a million troops!? If the fight starts, who dares to stand under his own banner? If the main generals are all huddled behind. What morale is there for the warriors below?

"...In addition to this thunder arrow, the Southern Barbarian Pili Navy also has a centipede ship. It is about twenty feet long and has three layers of oars on both sides. There are always one hundred and fifteen to two hundred, and it is flying on the water. There are also pig iron collision angles on the bow, which will hit our boat on the water. There are also stones and bed crossbows on the boat, which will throw thunder and thunder arrows. Our more than 20,000 naval forces, and more than 100 series of large ships were broken into the hands of twenty centipede ships... In the end, there was no sweat and no naval troops. We had no way to retreat from the Yangtze River, so we could only take a detour on the mountain road. There was not enough food and grass. When we encountered an epidemic, there were only less than 40,000 people left to retreat to Chengdu! King Mo Ge contacted the Southern Barbarian Xuanfu Pu Zezhi through Brother Wang Tian. He wanted to make peace, so he sent me to ask King Kublai Khan to make an idea."

Kublai Khan sighed and asked the generals, "What do you think?"

At that moment, a general jumped out and shouted: "How did this make it happen? Our army of more than 300,000 troops in the south, and after fighting for so many days, they lost so many generals. Even the Khan was gone. How could he return without success? If this is the case, it would be better for the princes of the west, and the princes of the east were laughed at to death!"

The other military generals immediately agreed: "If you want to negotiate peace, you have to avenge the Khan and then discuss it. That Chen Dexing is too hateful, so you must not keep him. The Southern Barbarian Emperor really needs to make peace, and take Chen Dexing's head first!"

Some people know the story of killing Fei Shi’s harmony in the north. Whether it is the Mongolians or traitors, they all know that the Song Dynasty officials are not a thing, and they like to kill loyal generals who serve the country the most. First there was Yue Fei, then Yu Jie, and among them, there was Meng Gong, who died inexplicably.

Kublai turned his head to look at several Han aides wearing Confucian shirts, Yang Weizhong, Yao Shu, Liu Bingzhong, Xu Heng, Dou Mo, Yang Guo, and Hao Jing. Except for the Jianghuai who were accused by the Mongols since childhood and served as slaves by the Khan of Ogedei and Yang Weizhong, the rest were famous scholars in the north. Unlike the great scholars in the south, the Han Confucian status in the north was not as noble as the Han army's Marquis, and there was no channel for the imperial examination to enter the officialdom. The only way out was to be an aide. At first, he was a staff member for the Han marquis of the north. Later, Kublai was in charge of military affairs in the Han area and attached importance to winning over Confucian scholars, so they had the opportunity to become a shogunate in the Jinlianchuan Shogunate.

"King, Chen Dexing is the thief of our great Mongolian enemy, so we should do everything possible to eliminate it. However, this discussion on peace and killing Xing is not suitable to be raised side by side, so as not to delay the long-term delay of the peace bureau, and the army will be in the Jianghuai for a long time."

The one who spoke was Liu Bingzhong. His son Liu Xiaoyuan had already sneaked into Jiangnan and contacted the foreign merchant Pu Shougeng. He was now responsible for the mission of contacting Liu Xiaoyuan. Therefore, he also learned about some of the matters in which the Chen family father and son colluded with Jia Sidao and gained favor to Emperor Lizong.

Liu Bingzhong paused and said carefully: "The Great Mongol has been conquering the Southern Barbarians for twenty-five years. Sichuan, Jinghu, and Jianghuai have almost become white. Nowadays, many people in the Southern Barbarians hate Mongolia deeply, and even those who are willing to speak up may not believe me. If they propose killing, they will definitely be suspicious. They think that I want to use a plan to kill the general, and then break the promise to go south and slaughter the south of the Yangtze River. Although Jin Wushu mentioned killing Fei in the past, Yanhe was before killing Fei.

The Shaoxing Peace Discussion Naicheng was on the seventh day of the 11th month of the 11th year of Shaoxing, and Yue Fei was killed on the twenty-ninth day of the 11th year of Shaoxing. Moreover, before the Shaoxing Peace Discussion, there had been a ceasefire between the Song and Jin Dynasties. Only in this way could Song Ting remove the military power of the heavy generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong first. Then he would stay and kill him, which was the decision of the Song Lord with one sentence. Now that the battle between Song Dynasty is in full swing, Chen Dexing holds heavy troops again. Even if the Song Lord is foolish, he will not have the intention to kill."

To kill a warlord who has heavy troops and can conquer warriors, it is not a decree to kill Chen Dexing. Even if he uses any strategy to kill Chen Dexing, his more than 10,000 troops will have to send a large army to solve the problem. With the combat power shown by the Pili Navy, I am afraid that even the 100,000 Song troops will not be able to defeat them! Moreover, the war between Mongolia and Song dynasty is in full swing, so where can Emperor Lizong draw out 100,000 soldiers to fight against the Pili Navy?

"If there is a truce, Lord Song will eradicate Chen Dexing?" Kublai Khan asked with some uncertainty.

The ceasefire seems to be certain, not because of the death of Mengge Khan. But because the Pili Navy is so sharp! With them here, it is impossible for the Mongolian army to cross the river. If it cannot cross the Yangtze River, the Mongolian army will not have much meaning to go south anymore.

"That depends on whether Chen Dexing is a loyal minister." Zhang Hongfan's teacher, Hao Jing, a great scholar in the north, took the topic and frowned. "Yue Fei, Meng Gong, and Yu Jie are all good ministers who are loyal to the country, so they are killed and deposed. If Chen Dexing is also a loyal minister, some strategies can certainly be eliminated. But if he is a treacherous slander with ulterior motives... he has to find another way to eliminate it. The king would rather send his subordinates to the Song army camp to talk about peace and inquire about Chen Dexing's reality."

Kublai Khan nodded and said, "According to what Hao Jing said, it is not easy to use a plan to eliminate the generals of the Southern Barbarians. If it fails, don't force it. It is the most important thing to ask for more than 300,000 troops this time. After several years of attack, not only will the losses be heavy, but also the gains are not large. If you cannot get a million-dollar trump card, you don't know how long it will take to recover the vitality of the northern land."
Chapter completed!