Chapter 1584: Night attack, siege, fraud
"Your Majesty, if the Song people dare to attack at night, I promise to make sure they never return!"

After hearing the assurance from General Wulianghetai, Kublai Khan nodded with satisfaction, signaled the other party to withdraw, and continued his night patrol.

Wulianghetai was originally the first Qiexue leader of the grassland Khan Mongke, and he knew Kublai Khan since childhood.

Kublai Khan was well aware of Wulianghetai's abilities.

This time, Mengge gave Kublai an army of 500,000 and asked him to retake Dadu, with Wulianghetai as the marshal leading the army.

After Wulianghetai left, there was no one else in the general's tent. Zhenjin, who was reading a military book silently, suddenly looked up and said:

"Father, this book says that a mountain without water sources is a bad place for military strategists. Father, why did you choose to station troops on this mountain?"

"Zhen Jin, you must remember that it is better to have no books than to believe in them blindly!"

When Kublai Khan saw that his youngest son had doubts, he looked at him with relief.

As an expert with many years of experience in marching and fighting, how could Kublai Khan not know that the camp he chose was a desperate place?

And he had compelling reasons to choose Jedi as his military camp.

Su Mingzhe had used mines to launch sneak attacks many times before, causing him to suffer heavy losses.

This time, before leading the army to the capital city, Su Mingzhe laid thousands of mines on the march, causing the army's march to slow down.

Seeing that the army was about to attack the city, Kublai Khan had to think about a question: how to guard against Su Mingzhe's "minefield".

After much deliberation, setting up camp on a mountain where mines were not easily buried became a helpless move that had to be taken out of necessity.

As Kublai Khan had expected, there was indeed no water source on the mountain, but there were no mines either.

Kublai Khan believed that under the protection of an army of 500,000, he could finally sleep peacefully.

As for the fact that there is no water source here, Kublai Khan doesn't care.

We'll just wait until the army chooses a safe new camp tomorrow and move away.

Listening to his father's explanation of the reason for stationing on the mountain, for some reason, Zhen Jin had a sense of absurdity:

"My father clearly has an army of 500,000, which is five times the size of the Song army in Dadu, but he is afraid at the moment... On the contrary, my fake father was able to remain calm in the face of enemies that were several times his size, and he even sent me out of the city to persuade them to surrender!"

Kublai Khan didn't know that his son Zhenjin was comparing Su Mingzhe with himself.

Even if he knew, he couldn't refute it.

After all, Su Mingzhe was able to easily destroy his 300,000-strong army a few years ago, and last year it only took him a few months to conquer all of his territories.

Su Mingzhe's military achievements were so outstanding that Kublai Khan would not allow him to look down on him in the slightest.

……

On the wall of Dadu.

Liu Bingzhong watched as all 100,000 defenders in Dadu left the city, and he couldn't help but worry:
"Your Majesty, a hundred thousand troops are coming out. Are they going to have a decisive battle with Kublai Khan?"

"Tonight is not a good time for a decisive battle! However, after today, the outcome will be decided!"

Su Mingzhe glanced at Liu Bingzhong and frowned:
"Bingzhong, of the three transfer orders I gave you earlier, how are the other two arranged?"

Liu Bingzhong quickly replied seriously:

"Your Majesty, a hundred thousand troops have arrived at the border of Guanzhong and Jinzhong. Kublai Khan can only retreat to the grassland..."

"He has no face to go back to the grassland!"

Su Mingzhe's mouth corners slightly raised, with indescribable confidence in his eyes:
"After this battle, he can only retreat to Jinzhong or Guanzhong! This time, I want to keep all the 500,000 troops that Kublai Khan brought into the pass!"

……

As Guo Jing swept across the White Mountains and Black Waters, Su Mingzhe's territory had expanded to the extreme, becoming the most powerful among many forces.

Unfortunately, once the territory was acquired, the weakness of population was exposed.

Even if Su Mingzhe included people of all ethnic groups in the statistics, the total population would just barely pass the 10 million mark.

Without a solid population base, there would be no solid foundation for conquering all over the world.

Su Mingzhe couldn't possibly learn from Goujian, who spent ten years gathering people and ten years learning lessons, right?

At this time, Kublai Khan entered the pass with an army of 500,000.

For Su Mingzhe, this was just like being sleepy and someone sent him a pillow.

If he doesn't swallow up these 500,000 troops, Su Mingzhe will regret it for a whole year! ...

"Report, there is an enemy sneak attack!"

"Report, the enemy is attacking with fire..."

"Report, most of the food and grass were burned..."

As Kublai Khan listened to the bad news, his face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhenjin looked up at his father and wisely did not speak.

……

A night of chaos!
The army under Su Mingzhe used artillery and fire attacks to launch a surprise attack on Kublai Khan's 500,000-strong army. However, they did not rush into the camp to kill, but quickly built defensive fortifications.

This resulted in Kublai Khan's army losing only 50% of its food and fodder overnight, and there were not many casualties.

……

Until dawn.

Su Mingzhe brought Liu Bingzhong to the foot of Yanshan Mountain and saw that his 100,000-strong army had built a defensive wall and surrounded Yanshan Mountain.

As for the hillside, there was thick smoke and the sound of soldiers and horses neighing, and it was obvious that the fire had not been put out yet.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. The outcome is now decided!"

Seeing that Kublai Khan was trapped in a jar, Liu Bingzhong quickly congratulated Su Mingzhe.

At the same time, he was also worried about those people in the city who were secretly colluding with Kublai Khan.

Who could have imagined that Kublai Khan, with his 500,000-strong army, would be besieged in Yanshan on the first day after arriving in the capital city.

Of course, because Yanshan is relatively large, the number of the Tartar’s 500,000 troops is not small.

If these 500,000 troops rushed down the mountain at the risk of their lives, Su Mingzhe would not be able to stop many of them.

……

"Your Majesty, the southern barbarians have built a mud wall at the foot of the mountain, trying to trap us to death on the mountain! Your Majesty, please make a decision as soon as possible!"

After a night of hard work, Wulianghetai successfully put out the fire and saved half of the food and grass.

After confirming that there were not many casualties, he came to Kublai Khan to report the situation.

"Thank you for your hard work, Wulianghetai!"

Kublai Khan gave some encouragement and then turned his gaze to his advisers.

Dong Wenyong quickly said:

"Your Majesty, I just looked around and found that the southern barbarians only had time to build earth walls on the south and east sides. We can retreat from the west and north!"

"I think it's inappropriate!"

Wulianghetai heard Dong Wenyong's proposal and quickly stopped him, saying:
"Your Majesty, the southern barbarians spent half the night building earth walls on the east and south sides. They will never let us evacuate from the north and west so easily. There must be a trick here!"

"What Wulianghetai said coincides with what I said. I also think the southern barbarians are deceiving us!"

Kublai Khan was really afraid of Su Mingzhe now. After some consideration, he asked Wulianghetai to send two teams of 10,000 people to go down the mountain from the north and west to test Su Mingzhe's reaction.

Wulianghetai took the order and went out to make arrangements.

Half an hour later.

Everyone in the general's tent heard bursts of thunder coming from the north and west.

Kublai Khan, who was sitting on the commander's seat, recognized the sound of dry thunder and felt that the imperial wine in the glass had lost its taste and became bitter instead.

Another half hour passed.

Wulianghetai's eyes were bloodshot, his body was covered in smoke and dirt, and he came back to apologize:
"Your Majesty, the southern barbarians are too cunning. They have buried minefields in the north and west. Twenty thousand Baturu went down the mountain, but only more than two thousand escaped!"

When everyone heard Wulianghetai's report, they couldn't help but gasp, and at the same time they were glad that Wulianghetai had just stopped the army from withdrawing from these two directions.

Otherwise, it’s hard to say whether everyone is still alive now.

(End of this chapter)