Seeing this, Kuo Duan couldn't help asking, "Father, what's the matter?"
Wokuotai waved his hand, "You guys go down first."
Many Han military nobles were relieved and hurriedly bowed and resigned.
After they left the tent, Wo Kuotai said in a deep voice: "The envoy I sent to Junzhou was intercepted and killed by Kublai Khan's people."
Kuo Duan was shocked when he heard this, "Father Khan, it seems that Kublai Khan is determined to rebel. We must stop him before he returns to Mongolia!"
Wokuotai stood up, his cheeks twitching, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.
At first he thought this was just a divorce tactic used by the Jin State, but it was just a misunderstanding. He explained that Kublai Khan would not make drastic moves and things were still within control.
Now Kublai Khan actually sent people to intercept and kill the envoy to prevent him from contacting the generals of the southern army. This shows that Kublai Khan is determined to rebel.
This made Ogedai unable to calm down. The youngest Mongolian son guarded the stove. Originally, Tuo Lei was the most likely to inherit the throne of Khan. However, he gained the support of Chagatai and was elected as the Great Khan at the Kuritai Conference.
Wo Kuotai knew that Tuo Lei's family was not willing to accept it, and he was not at ease with Tuo Lei. There was a conflict between the two parties.
Now he was very suspicious. Although Kublai Khan was young, he was considered a smart man among the many young princes in Mongolia. Could he be so easy to fall into the trap of alienation? Could it be that he was using the subject as an excuse?
Thinking of this, Wokuotai became more and more uneasy.
Kuo Duan persuaded with sincerity, "Father Khan, the Kingdom of Jin is here. We can destroy it whenever we want, but if Meng Ge and Kublai Khan take over the throne, what's the point of destroying the Kingdom of Jin if Father Khan destroys it?" Woolen cloth?"
This sentence woke up Wo Kuotai. He glanced at Guo Duan and finally nodded heavily, "You are right. Send the order to retreat immediately!"
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That night, at the top of Bianjing City, Zhao Tai got gunpowder from Heda and started tinkering at the top of the city.
At this time, Zhao Tai gathered his subordinates and the Jin Bing officers who were assigned to his command.
While stuffing gunpowder and iron nails and gravel into the clay pot, he asked with a smile, "Everyone who defended the city did a good job today, which is very honorable to me. Marshal Heda has promised me to celebrate my victory. When the reward comes, I will According to your merits, part of the reward will be distributed to you.”
Several Jin soldiers tried to defeat him, and they were a little surprised when they heard this. They had never seen any chief give rewards to his subordinates.
Zhao Tai started making the work while continuing: "Each of you, please tell me what you did today to defend the city. What did you do well and deserve to share your experience? What did you do poorly and needs improvement? Everyone. Tell me all your experiences and lessons, let me learn from them, and then summarize the experience and share it with my subordinate soldiers so that I can kill the enemy better tomorrow."
This made everyone look at each other. They were soldiers. They always obeyed the orders of their superiors and followed the generals to fight. How could any general learn from them?
Some of them found it unbelievable, while others misunderstood. For example, Xu Erzhu started to boast, "At that time, two Mongolians jumped on the top of the city. They were big and round. They wanted to attack me when I wasn't paying attention. I raised my hand and killed one of them. Turn around and kick another one away~~~"
Zhao Tai stopped what he was doing and looked at him, "Where are you fucking storytellers?"
Xu Erzhu touched his head, a little aggrieved, and whispered: "Didn't you ask us to tell us what we did well? I have always been good at killing enemies."
Zhao Tai's purpose is not to let them show off, but to hope that they can learn to sum up experience and lessons from the war and use their subjective initiative so that they can fight better next time.
Of course, Zhao Tai has no experience in holding this kind of meeting. He has never been a soldier before, and his only experience is that he participated in a one-month military training.
Zhao Tai glared at him and coughed lightly, "Let me start by talking about the problems I had in defending the city today. First of all, I did not make any plan for the enemy's attack on the city. I was captured at the top of the city. After the opponent was suppressed, there was nothing we could do. Secondly, we did not come up with a way earlier to prevent the siege tower from approaching the city wall, which caused a siege tower to get close to the city wall, causing us a loss of fifty-two people!"
In fact, Zhao Tai cannot be blamed for this. He was also appointed temporarily and had no time to prepare, but he still took the problem on himself.
Zhao Tai continued: "Let me talk about a few problems I discovered. First, we do not have the means to restrain the opponent's well, so that the Mongolian archers can attack us from a high position. Second, for those who rush to I don’t have many ways to kill the enemies in the corner.”
After listening to Zhao Tai's words, everyone became serious and seemed to understand what Zhao Tai meant.
Zhao Tai continued: "When you find problems and errors, you still have to think about how to solve them."
As he spoke, he picked up a rocket he had just made. Regardless of whether it could be used or not, he introduced: "This is the rocket I made, which is used to solve the enemy's wells. This is the thunder, which is used to Blow up the enemy troops in the corner and throw them into the Mongolian siege tower~"
With Zhao Tai demonstrating at the beginning, everyone also began to recall the battle during the day, thinking about what they did poorly and how to improve it, and what they did well that they could teach others.
While everyone was talking, they were making simple firearms under Zhao Tai's command. It wasn't until midnight that they fell asleep at the top of the city.
In February, the earth warmed up and everything revived. However, sleeping on the city wall for a night still made everyone's limbs stiff from the cold, which was very hard.
Early in the morning, as the east became increasingly white, the soldiers at the top of the city stood up one after another, flexing their frozen muscles and bones in preparation for the Mongolian attack.
Zhao Tai worked for most of the night and rushed to make a batch of firearms. Although he didn't know how effective they would be, looking at them, Zhao Tai became more confident and prepared to fight another beautiful defensive battle.
At this time, the people below the city brought steamed buns to the top of the city. Zhao Tai and others immediately took the pancakes and started eating and drinking at the top of the city.
Zhao Tai finished eating a piece of big cake, but felt that something was missing. At this time yesterday, the Mongolian camp had already blown the horn and started to set up camp.
If Wokuotai was eager to capture Bianjing, he should continue to launch a fierce attack, but why didn't he respond?
Thinking of this, Zhao Tai couldn't help but stand up and walked to the city wall to look at the Mongolian camp in the distance, but he couldn't see clearly.
At this time, Heda was patrolling the city and saw him looking there, and couldn't help asking: "Guorui, what are you looking at?"
Zhao Tai pointed at the Mongolian camp, feeling a little excited, "Marshal, the Mongols may have withdrawn!"
Heda raised his brows, and his bloodshot eyes suddenly became bright. He hurriedly walked to the city wall, but like Zhao Tai, he couldn't see clearly what was happening in the distance, but it was indeed too quiet outside.
Heda couldn't help turning his head and shouted: "Let the sentries leave the city immediately to investigate the situation in the Mongolian camp."
