Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 126 Bet
"General Pan." Zhao Dezhao patted Pan Mei's armour, and said with a smile, "The story you told is very good. Zhi's defeat and Zhao's victory, but don't forget, my surname is also Zhao!"

Pan Mei opened her mouth wide in astonishment, is it still possible to talk about winning or losing like this?This is obviously unreasonable.

"Your Highness, besieging the city with water is certainly useful, but it cannot be effective in a hurry." Although Pan Mei is full of dissatisfaction, she still has a heavy responsibility to bear. : "The weather is hot now, and our troops are camping in the wild. In less than a month, the disease will inevitably spread. By then -"

Zhao Dezhao raised his hand to stop Pan Mei, and said calmly, "If you don't believe me, you and I might as well make a bet."

Pan Mei was stunned for a moment: "How to gamble?"

"If I can't break the city within ten days, then I will follow your idea and divert the army to cross the city and go south!"

After Zhao Dezhao finished speaking, he fixed his eyes on Pan Mei and said meaningfully: "But what if the king breaks the city within ten days?"

Pan Mei understood Zhao Dezhao's meaning, and after a little hesitation, she immediately said: "From then on, Weijiang will be sincere to His Highness, and will be loyal to His Highness, only Your Highness will follow!"

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From the second day after the flood besieged the city, the Song army set up their camp firmly, and did not move, and no longer attacked Guancheng.Even if the defenders of the Southern Han Dynasty had the courage to go out of the city to fight back, they did not have boats to use.

Yanguan's majestic Guancheng stands in a vast ocean, like a small isolated island. One is at the head of the city, and the other is at the high slope camp not far away, facing each other across the water.

Due to the accumulation of water and mud everywhere, the trebuchets relying on animal power could not work normally, and the horse mules would slip on their feet after taking a few steps, and the plague caused many deaths, so the mutual bombardment of stone cannons basically stopped, and the firing of crossbows was also far away. If they couldn't reach it, the sergeants of the two countries could only select a group of sergeants with loud voices to yell and curse across the water every day, which could barely be regarded as continuing to fight with their mouths.

Every time around noon, there will usually be a thunderstorm. Although the amount of rain is not heavy each time, it will eventually make this vast ocean and country deeper and wider. , the Southern Han army guarding the city was miserable from top to bottom.

However, comparing the two, the life of the Song army was even more difficult. The soldiers and soldiers were all from the north, and they were extremely uncomfortable with the hot and humid weather, so that many soldiers fell ill with heat stroke every day.Although it will not hurt the Song army, if the current situation continues, the consequences will be disastrous.

Pan Mei was gagged by Zhao Dezhao's bet, and she had no choice but to persuade her, so she could only keep her worries and anger in her stomach. The first thing he did when he woke up every day was to look at the tightly closed city wall , Has it been damaged and collapsed by the flood, but every time he finds it, he is disappointed. Day after day, the towering city walls of Yancheng stand upright in a vast ocean of water, and at most some of the walls are peeled off every day. , There is no sign of collapse at all, and his face is getting uglier day by day.

On the eighth day, Pan Mei couldn't hold back any longer, and approached Zhao Dezhao with a dark old face: "Your Highness, the ten-day deadline is coming, can we retreat now?"

"Ten days will be over, but isn't it still here?" Zhao Dezhao sat on the commander's seat safely, with a calm expression, and smiled lightly: "Why should General Pan be in a hurry?"

"The sooner you send the order to the whole army, the soldiers will be able to make preparations earlier, and they will be able to move faster when they retreat." Pan Mei's face was livid as she spoke, and her eyes were about to burst into flames. He was about to lose his last patience. I don't want to stay in this stinky puddle for a day,

"It seems to make sense..."

Zhao Dezhao rubbed his chin, looking thoughtful, Pan Mei was overjoyed, thinking that there was a door, but unexpectedly Zhao Dezhao changed the subject: "Pass on the king's order to get the baggage camp ready to go, and then They sent people to dig the embankment of the Qinshui River."

"May I ask Your Highness, why did you send someone to dig the embankment?" Pan Mei was bewildered.

"Of course the embankment needs to be released." Zhao Dezhao said nonsense with a smile on his face.

Pan Mei was speechless for a moment, and after taking a breath, she said, "Since our army's siege of the city with water didn't work, we just retreated and took a detour. Why bother? After our soldiers leave, the defenders will naturally leave the city." Dig embankments to release water. Your Highness's move is no different from that of an enemy!"

Zhao Dezhao waved his hand resolutely, and put on an unquestionable tone: "Since it was built by our Heavenly Soldiers of the Song Dynasty, it should be dug by our Heavenly Soldiers of the Song Dynasty, so that it can be called the whole from the beginning to the end. "

Pan Mei's eyes were darkened, and she almost choked out of breath. He seriously suspected that the rainwater that had fallen in the past few days and the blocked river had not accumulated around the camp, but had all accumulated in His Highness the county king. in mind.

However, ever since Zhao Dezhao made a decision, no one could object to it.Pan Mei knew that she couldn't disobey her, so she could only swallow her anger and go straight out of the tent to carry out the military order.

He mobilized [-] soldiers, boarded more than ten rafts, and brought shovels and hoes, and all the soldiers worked together, and within half an hour, they dug several holes on the embankment of the Qinshui River. The road breaks.

I saw that the breach was rapidly expanding under the erosion of the river. In less than an hour, the Qinshui embankment that the Song army worked so hard and cost more than two hundred lives to build disappeared, and the accumulated water followed. After retreating quickly, the riverbanks on both banks were full of mud, as if they had been washed away by a flood.

Witnessing this scene, the soldiers in charge of digging the embankment were not very emotional. Not to mention they were exhausted from building the embankment, and the digging was even more inexplicable.

Pan Mei stood on the shore, seeing the mess on the ground after the flood receded, and said angrily: "The dignified nobles of the heavenly family act so willfully and lead the troops to fight like this. If this person really becomes the crown prince, it will be the disaster of the Song Dynasty and the disaster of the world!"

The relatives and generals who were at the side shrank their necks when they heard it. Although everyone felt the same in their hearts, no one dared to answer this remark. All of them wanted to cover their ears. These words openly accused His Royal Highness Ah, and when it comes to the battle between the crown princes of the Great Song Dynasty, civil servants are nothing more than civil servants. If warriors get involved in this kind of thing, it is the rhythm of causing trouble to their superiors and killing themselves. Some people began to cough uncontrollably and reminded Pan Mei not to continue talking .

Pan Mei couldn't hold back anymore, and glared at the coughing person angrily: "He can do it, what can I say? Tomorrow, the old man will send people back to Tokyo, and the admiral Zou Ming will recall him to Beijing!"

Suddenly, someone beside him exclaimed: "Marshal, look!"

(End of this chapter)