Chapter 30 Crossing Dingyang
The night was rich. Looking down from the air, the waters of the Pearl River Estuary were lighted. A huge fleet was moored on the water surface. It was slightly smaller than the Southern Song Dynasty's boat division, but it was neatly arranged and had a distinctive flag. There were warships in the middle and small boats were cruised around the outside. This should be the last force of the Southern Song Dynasty that annihilated the last power of the Southern Song Dynasty in history. It is worth mentioning that most of the members of this army were Han people.
In ancient times, water wars focused on flag command and dispatch. The large ship of the central army must be the largest and highest-ranking ship. Liu Yanzhi saw clearly in the air. He pressed the clouds and landed on the deck. The Yuan army was only guarding against sneak attacks on the water. He never expected that people would fall in the air. Liu Yanzhi walked calmly on the deck, looking for the entrance. He was wearing a Yuan army robe and a big-sized style. Even if he met a sailor, he could not tell that this person was Xibei.
Zhang Hongfan's ship was too big. Liu Yanzhi searched in the bottom cabin for a long time but couldn't find what to see in detaining Wen Tianxiang. So he simply asked someone to ask: "Where is the official of the Southern People?" The man was honest and told him to lock him in the upper back cabin.
Liu Yanzhi suddenly realized that the upper rear cabin and the "rear deck" function on European sailboats were the same, and they were both places where officers lived, and they were the most comfortable and high-end. It seemed that Zhang Hongfan was quite kind to Wen Tianxiang. He looked for the cabins where prisoners were imprisoned in the turbid and dirty and narrow bottom cabin according to his inertial thinking, but of course he could not find anyone.
So I went to the upper floor of the rear cabin again, and this time I successfully found the cabin where Wen Tianxiang was imprisoned. Because there were two Yuan soldiers holding swords standing at the door, with a full of murderous aura on their helmets and armor, I must be wrong.
Liu Yan went straight forward, and the two Yuan soldiers pressed the handle of the knife and asked, "Who is coming?"
"Your grandpa!" Liu Yanzhi quickly stepped forward, shot left and right, and made a fierce hand knife on the major artery of the two of them. The two collapsed to the ground, and the armor and weapons collided on the deck and made a sound. Someone in the room asked, "Who is making noise?"
Liu Yan pushed the door straight into the room and saw two people playing chess. They were dressed in long scribes, with a gentle and murderous look, and they were about the same age. They were about forty years old, and they looked at themselves quietly. Among them, the black-held man glanced at the soldiers lodging outside, and his eyes quickly looked at the sword hanging on the bulkhead.
This person is Zhang Hongfan, and Liu Yan made a quick judgment.
He guessed right. This person was Zhang Hongfan. He was playing chess with Wen Tianxiang. He further communicated in depth and advised him to know the times and be a hero and submit to the Yuan Dynasty as soon as possible. The other party was still extremely stubborn and would rather die than surrender. Although Zhang Hongfan was a military general, he was also well-read and read poetry and admired those who were loyal to the country in his bones. Therefore, he always treated him with courtesy and greeted Wen Tianxiang with the standards of entertaining guests. Besides, there were still hundreds of thousands of Song people on the other side of Yashan. If Wen Tianxiang could surrender, he would save a lot of trouble in writing a book.
Unexpectedly, the Song people's assassin could penetrate his own ship. Zhang Hongfan was shocked and quickly reacted and wanted to draw the sword. He was good at using horse thrones and his short skills were slightly worse, but it was not a problem to deal with ordinary masters. However, the assassin in front of him was obviously different from a martial arts practitioner, because his body skills were so fast that Zhang Hongfan could not see it at all. In the blink of an eye, the sword was already in the hands of the other party.
Zhang Hongfan was shocked and sweated coldly. This was a demon and could not be used to it. At this moment, he didn't care about the general's demeanor and rushed towards the cabin door. Liu Yanzhi did not chase him. He threw out the sword. The sword blade wiped Zhang Hongfan's hair and flew over. The nailed it on the cabin door and trembled slightly, nailing the cabin door and unable to open it.
On this side, Liu Yan bowed to see Wen Tianxiang: "I paid homage to Prime Minister Wen after I was young."
Wen Tianxiang was the right prime minister and Privy Councilor of the Southern Song Dynasty, equivalent to the prime minister and minister of national defense. He and Lu Xiufu, who was the left prime minister, and Zhang Shijie, who served as deputy envoy of Privy Councilor, were called the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty. The three of them had the highest official positions. His capture gave the confidence and fighting spirit of the Southern Song Dynasty's anti-Yuan forces to greatly frustrate. On the contrary, if Wen Tianxiang was rescued, it would surely greatly boost morale.
Wen Tianxiang is a person who cares about life and death indifferently. Facing the hope of rescue, he was calm and calm. He was a little arrogant and sat upright without moving. He asked in a deep voice: "Whose subordinate are you?"
Liu Yanzhi said: "I am Liu Yanzhi, not someone's subordinate, but just a Han man who is unwilling to surrender. Prime Minister Wen, I will take you to Yashan to meet His Majesty."
Wen Tianxiang heard this and then stood up and returned the greeting: "It turned out to be Liu Zhuangshi. I thought it was Marshal Zhang who used to make a plan."
After all, Zhang Hongfan is a veteran on the battlefield. How could he be scared by a mere assassin? He couldn't open the cabin door and shouted loudly: "Come here, there is an assassin!"
However, the entire rear cabin was cleared by him, and the guards at the door were also knocked down. Amid the sound of water and wind at the mouth of the Pearl River, no one heard Marshal Zhang's call for help.
Liu Yan turned around and treated Zhang Hongfan. The traitor he hated the most was a traitor. Although Zhang Hongfan was not from the Southern Song Dynasty, he was a real Hebei native. He was a Han nationality, but he helped the Mongolian Tartars kill his compatriots. It was simply intolerable. After killing him, the battle at Yashan would break the situation. Except for Zhang Hongfan, no one had the ability to wipe out the Southern Song fleet in one fell swoop.
But just as he pulled out the sword from the cabin door and was about to chop it up on Zhang Hongfan's head, Wen Tianxiang said: "No, let him live."
Liu Yan stopped, and the sword was on the tip of Zhang Hongfan's nose: "The Prime Minister should not be a woman's kindness."
Wen Tianxiang said: "Marantor Zhang and I are all just their masters. During our visit, we are caring for Marshal Zhang. We must repay this favor. Can Mr. Liu give Wen this thin face?"
Liu Yanzhi was hesitating whether to kill Zhang Hongfan or not. Killing this guy was the most convenient way to win, but killing Zhang Hongfan by assassination means was greater anger rather than frustration for the Yuan Dynasty. What the Southern Song Dynasty needed was not an opportunistic victory, but a real victory in the frontal battlefield.
"Well, look at Prime Minister Wen's face, let's leave your head on your neck for the time being, let's see you on the battlefield." Liu Yan put away the sword, and without looking at it, the sword body was inserted into the scabbard tightly and tightly. This hand shocked Zhang Hongfan again.
Now that things have come, Zhang Hongfan has calmed down. As a general, he has a gully in his heart and will not care about the gains and losses of a city and a land. The fact that he was able to capture Wen Tianxiang was not by chance, but by crushing his strength. Similarly, although the Southern Song fleet in Yashan was crowded with people and ships, his morale was lost and he was no match for the Yuan army at all. Even if there were a few demon masters, he could not change his decay of the country.
"Well, let's leave now. Let's keep the endgame and finish this game a few days later." Zhang Hongfan sat down openly and poured himself a glass of wine.
Only then did Liu Yanzhi notice the chess game. Although he didn't know much about Go, he could also see that Wen Tianxiang's white chess was surrounded by black pieces, and the outcome was basically decided.
Zhang Hongfan drank a drink by himself, pointed to the chessboard and said, "Can the Prime Minister's Mo Treasure be given to me?"
On the desk next to it, there are poems about the eternal unbreakable ink:
Once the hardships come, the stars around you fell.
The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is floating, and the life experience is floating and the rain is blowing.
I was afraid of the beach and sighed in the ocean.
Since ancient times, no one has died, but he has left his loyalty to shine in history.
This is Zhang Hongfan's use of both soft and hard work and force Wen Tianxiang to write letters to surrender Zhang Shijie. Wen Tianxiang wrote this poem "Crossing the Zero Dingyang" with the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that wrote the book "Crossing the Zero Dingyang".
When Liu Yanzhi saw this calligraphy, he wanted to keep it for collection, but he thought that it would be better to give it to Zhang Hongfan, a traitor, to play a certain educational role, so he did not fight.
Zhang Hongfan personally sent Liu Yanzhi and Wen Tianxiang out. At this time, the Yuan army had already discovered clues surrounding him. The deck was full of swords and guns with flashing cold lights. Dozens of powerful crossbows and hard bows aimed at Liu Yanzhi. As long as the marshal gave the order, he could shoot the assassin into a sieve.
But Zhang Hongfan did not take the risk. First, he was afraid of Liu Yanzhi's skills, and ordinary bows and arrows would not hurt this person, but would instead lose his life. Second, he wanted to defeat the Song army on the front battlefield and capture Wen Tianxiang again. This was what a real man did.
"You must not be rude when you retreat." Zhang Hongfan lowered his face and shouted. His subordinates retreated one after another, but they still set their bows and arrows, ready to go.
"Heroic man, where is your ship?" Zhang Hongfan asked with a little sarcastic sarcastic question, "Do you need this coach to send you a ride?"
"Thank you, we won't go on the water." After Liu Yanzhi said, he led Wen Tianxiang out of the cabin calmly, went to the deck, bowed down and said to him: "Prime Minister, close your eyes, lie on my back, never open your eyes."
Wen Tianxiang has a wide range of knowledge and is not too surprised by things like Zi Buyu's strange powers and chaos. He lay on Liu Yanzhi's back as he spoke, closed his eyes, and then felt the sound of a whizzing wind blowing through his ears.
Under the gaze of hundreds of Yuan soldiers and Zhang Hongfan, Liu Yanzhi put all his strength into a cannon-like takeoff, and the recoil forced a hole in the deck.
Zhang Hongfan looked up at the sky and began to regret not letting them go. Once a second time, the chances of winning the battle in Yashan would be greatly reduced.
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Chapter completed!