Chapter 1583: Persuading Surrender, Sneak Attack, Jedi
In the blink of an eye it was April.

Kublai Khan, leading an army of 500,000, has entered the Great Wall.

The war is coming!

After Su Mingzhe learned the news, he called Cha Bi to his study.

Cha Bi is already five months pregnant and her belly is slightly bulging.

Perhaps because the weather was getting hotter, Chabi was only wearing a loose emerald green Tang-style palace skirt today, revealing her snow-white cleavage.

Su Mingzhe was immediately interested when he saw the woman so charming and seductive.

Cha Bi never expected that her belly was so big and the man was still so interested. Helplessly, she could only try her best to support her body, protect her belly and avoid hitting the desk.

In fact, Su Mingzhe was also paying close attention to Cha Bi's belly. After all, that was his child.

Soon, Yuhe helped Chabi to rest on the soft couch in the outer room.

Minglan took over the relay.

The entertainment is over.

Su Mingzhe felt refreshed. After the maid cleaned up, he asked someone to call Duo'erzhi and Zhenjin.

Cha Bi looked at his two sons coming, then covered his face and left.

"Duoerzhi (Zhenjin) greets His Majesty, may His Majesty be well and safe!"

Duo'er only saluted the brother Zhenjin carefully, and did not even look at her mother as she passed by her.

"No gift."

Su Mingzhe smiled and offered the two brothers a seat, then said:

"Your father led an army of 500,000 into the pass and has now passed Xifengkou. It is only a day's journey from Dadu..."

"Your Majesty is a mighty and powerful man. My father is definitely no match for you!"

It must be said that Duo'er's ability to flatter others is increasing day by day. After a few words of flattery, Su Mingzhe burst into laughter:
"Your father is no match for me!"

Su Mingzhe's arrogance without any modesty made Duo'er secretly relieved.

Last year, Su Mingzhe conquered Dadu and took Chabi as his princess. He was quite nice to the brothers Duoerzhi and Zhenjin.

At least Duo'er and Zhenjin thought that they were living a pretty good life. They were still well-dressed and well-fed, surrounded by maids and servants, and never lacked anything.

If possible, the two brothers even thought about living like this for the rest of their lives.

Now, Kublai Khan suddenly led an army of 500,000 and approached Dadu, disrupting the peaceful life of the two.

Deep down, the two brothers both hated their father to some extent.

Su Mingzhe didn't know what the two brothers were thinking, and continued to speak on his own:

"God is merciful. I am willing to give your father a chance to live. As long as he is willing to surrender to me, I can promise that when I ascend the throne, I will let him become the Khan of the grassland! Which of you two brothers is willing to leave the city and tell me this?"

"Please spare my life, my lord. I dare not leave the city and communicate with Kublai Khan!"

Duo'er only heard Su Mingzhe's orders and thought that Su Mingzhe was testing him. He was so scared that his face turned pale, his legs went limp, and he kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy.

Compared to the eleven-year-old Duo'erzhi, the five- or six-year-old Zhenjin showed considerable courage. He clasped his hands together and responded:
"Your Majesty, I am willing to go outside the city and deliver a message for you!"

"it is good!"

Seeing that Zhenjin agreed, Su Mingzhe immediately handed him the letter he had written, and then sent a team of guards to escort him out of the city.

As for Duo'erji, since she is willing to be a coward, then she should continue to be a coward.

Su Mingzhe is quite fond of Cha Bi, and because of this, he is also more tolerant of Duo'erzhi and the Zhenjin brothers.

……

By the afternoon.

Zhenjin met his father whom he had not seen for nearly a year.

Presenting Su Mingzhe's letter of persuasion to surrender, Zhenjin said fearlessly:
"Father, I'm here on the orders of King Lu to deliver a letter to persuade you to surrender! There are hundreds of tiger-crouching cannons, hundreds of general cannons, and over ten thousand muskets in the capital city. These firearms are extremely sharp and cannot be defeated by the bows and arrows of Baturu from the grassland. Father, please understand the situation as soon as possible and surrender as soon as possible..." Kublai Khan didn't know whether he should be relieved or angry when he saw his five-year-old son being able to talk to him freely.

After all, this son who should have made him proud, instead boosted other people's ambitions, destroyed his own prestige, and made him surrender to outsiders.

This is true: if you endure for a moment, the angrier you get; if you take a step back, the more you think about the loss.

Kublai Khan couldn't hold back his anger after all:

"Someone, lock this guy up!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

Seeing this, one of Kublai Khan's advisers stepped forward and advised:

"My young prince only knows that the southern barbarians' firearms are powerful, but he doesn't know that this time, my 500,000-man army also has a hundred stone cannons to support it..."

"Stone cannons? Are you talking about those heavy things outside the general's tent? I wonder what their range is?"

Although Zhenjin was small, he was very courageous. Even though his father was angry, he still spoke calmly:
"The tiger squat cannon in the capital can fire straight at a distance of 300 steps and high at a distance of 500 steps. The general cannon can fire straight at a distance of 800 steps and high at a distance of 1,200 steps. The range of the fire gun is 120 steps... Father, can the stone cannons outside the general's tent compare to them?"

"Are you serious, young prince? Can the cannons in the city really reach 1,200 steps?"

The counselor's surname was Dong, and he was a new recruit of Kublai Khan. After Zhenjin confirmed the information was correct, he quickly gave Kublai Khan a look:
"Your Majesty, the southern barbarians' firearms are so powerful, we must be careful!"

"Well, someone, lock this guy up for me!"

Although Kublai Khan was also surprised by the power of firearms in the capital city, he did not think it was difficult to attack.

When Zhenjin left, Kublai Khan said indifferently:

"Yancai, even if the Nanman's firearms are powerful, we just need to find out the direction of the firearms and attack other directions, that's it!"

Seeing that Kublai Khan was full of confidence, Dong Wenyong was afraid that his new master would be too arrogant and suffer losses, so he quickly reminded him:

"Your Majesty is right, but it's never too much for us to be careful!"

"Don't worry, I won't take any risks!"

Although Kublai Khan promised not to take risks, he certainly would not attack the city cautiously.

After all, the Art of War says: "If your force is ten, surround it; if your force is five, attack it; if your force is twice as many, fight it..."

Now he had an army of 500,000, but there were only 100,000 people in the capital.

Kublai Khan, who had never fought such a prosperous war, wanted to shout: The advantage is with me!

……

"My Lord, are you planning to launch a surprise attack on the enemy camp?"

Liu Bingzhong didn't expect that Su Mingzhe would wake him up in the middle of the night and drag him to the top of the city wall.

When he climbed up the city wall, he saw the city gate was open and teams of cavalry were quietly leaving the city.

As Su Mingzhe's adviser, Liu Bingzhong felt that he had an obligation to remind:
"Your Majesty, you have launched several surprise attacks before. Kublai Khan is probably prepared for night attacks!"

"He defends his, and I fight mine!"

Su Mingzhe smiled brightly and suddenly asked:
"Bingzhong, have you heard of 'burning the camps'?"

Liu Bingzhong knew something about the famous battle. When he heard the question, he nodded quickly and said:
"Your Highness, is this referring to the story during the Three Kingdoms period when Emperor Zhaolie attacked the Eastern Wu in retaliation for the murder of his second brother Guan Yu? Because the camp stretched for hundreds of miles, it was burned down by the Eastern Wu general Lu Xun?"

"Not bad!"

Su Mingzhe took out a telescope from his arms and handed it to Liu Bingzhong, asking him to look at it:

"Bingzhong, look at Kublai Khan's camp, is there any water nearby?"

Liu Bingzhong took the telescope and looked through it, but it was dark and he couldn't see clearly.

However, Liu Bingzhong had lived in the capital for several years and was familiar with the surrounding terrain. He calculated the distance silently and looked inexplicably surprised:

"Your Majesty, why would Kublai Khan set up camp in such a desperate place?"

(End of this chapter)