Zhao Tai failed to break out of the siege. Kublai Khan judged that the Pizhou defenders had suffered heavy losses. He originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to force a wave of Pizhou attacks, but he did not want to suddenly hear the news that Yan Zhongji was besieged.

There were two great princes in Shandong, one was Li Fen of Yidu and the other was the Yan family of Dongping.

Although Yan Zhongji was a Han Chinese, Kublai Khan had to save him.

Since the rise of the Liao Kingdom, which set a precedent for grassland peoples to rule the Han Dynasty and created the system and means for the northern nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples to rule the Han Dynasty, the northern nomadic peoples have known that they need the support of some Han people if they want to take over the Central Plains.

The overall situation is good for Mongolia now, but the northern regions are still unstable.

There are resistance forces such as Zhao Tai in Shandong and Guo Xiabao in Guanzhong. Mongolia needs Han warlords like Yan Zhongji, Zhang Rou, and Shi Tianze to help them rule the Han lands.

Now that Yan Zhongji is under siege, if Kublai Khan refuses to save him, it will undoubtedly chill the Han army and make them less desperate in the future.

Although the Mongols were invincible, they still had too few people, so they still needed to use the Han people to rule.

At present, Zhao Tai's breakthrough was frustrated and many troops and horses were lost. The Mongolian army wanted to attack again and needed time to prepare equipment, so it could just send the horse army to rescue.

The speed of the Mongolian cavalry is astonishing. Yanzhou is not far from Pizhou. It takes at most five days to defeat Wuxian and Li Fen and then return to Pizhou.

By then, Kublai Khan's siege equipment was almost ready, and it was up to him to decide whether to storm the city by force or continue the siege.

Everyone was quite surprised after hearing Kublai Khan's words. They did not expect that Wuxian and Li Fen's counterattack would be so fierce.

Zhang Rou and others immediately saluted, "Yes!"

Kublai Khan said in a deep voice: "The banquet ends here! You go back to the camp to assemble the cavalry army, and set off again after dark! In addition, each camp will plant more flags, arrange more manpower to patrol the camp, and build equipment at the same time, making Zhao Tai feel that he

The king wants to attack the city immediately and don’t let the thieves find out that the cavalry army has left!”

Yesterday, the Mongolian army set out during the day and returned at night in order to seduce Zhao Tai.

If Kublai Khan really wants to send his troops north today, it would be best not to let Zhao Tai know about it.

Although Zhao Tai suffered heavy losses last night, there is no guarantee that he would not break through again if he learned that the Mongolian and Ma troops had left.

Zhao Tai failed to break through and saw the Mongolian camp building equipment. He must have felt that the Mongolian army was going to attack the city, so he could only strengthen the defense and not go out to cause trouble.

Zhang Rou and others saluted and then left the tent. Kublai Khan continued to sit, picked up the wine bowl and took another sip, "Zhao Tai, I will let you live a few more days!"

It was night, when the sky had just darkened, a large group of Mongolian cavalry quietly left the camp with their horses, and then headed north.

Although the defenders in Pizhou City suffered heavy losses, for the sake of safety, Kublai Khan did not allow the army to move out during the day, but quietly left at night.

Zhao Tai failed to break through and must have had to delay for a few days. By the time he found out that the Mongolian cavalry was not there, the horse army had already returned from Yanzhou.

The next day, early in the morning, Zhao Tai led his subordinates to the top of the city.

"What happened last night?" Zhao Tai asked impatiently as soon as he climbed onto the city wall.

General Chang Yu said: "Reporting to your Majesty, I was on the city last night and no Mongolian troops came near the city wall?"

"Where is the Mongolian army camp outside the city? Is there anything unusual?" Zhao Tai took the telescope from the guard and prepared to observe.

Sanyu thought for a while, "The king asked me to pay attention to what's going on outside the city, but the sky was too dark and I couldn't see clearly. The Mongolian army patrolled closely outside the city, and the scouts who fell down from the city did not dare to get too close. They only heard the sound in the middle of the night.

There were frequent sounds of horses neighing in the Mongolian camp, but there was no sound in the middle of the night."

Zhao Tai nodded, walked to the city wall, stretched the lens tube, and put it in front of his eyes to watch, paying attention to the situation in the Mongolian army camp.

At this time, the circular vision swept across the Mongolian camp. In the camera, many soldiers were carrying wood, obviously trying to build siege equipment. The camp seemed very busy.

This made Zhao Tai frown and thought to himself: "It seems that Kublai Khan wanted to severely damage our troops and wanted to rebuild the equipment and launch a strong attack."

As Zhao Tai watched, he thought to himself, "Kublai Khan wouldn't want to conquer Pizhou first, and then go north to defeat Wuxian and Li Fen! Or maybe Wuxian and Li Fen's offensive was not strong enough, so Kublai Khan

I think we can defeat Pizhou first! If so, my plan is over!"

There were a lot of people in the Mongolian camp, and soldiers of all ethnic groups were walking through it. It seemed extremely busy. The number of people didn't seem to decrease, which made Zhao Tai a little anxious.

His camera left the infantrymen who were building equipment and moved to the stable, where a smile finally appeared on his lips unconsciously.

Based on the distance between the Mongolian army camp and Pizhou City, if you observe it with the naked eye, you can definitely only see the Mongolian army in the camp preparing their weapons and being very busy, looking like they are preparing to attack the city.

At this time, in the camp, on the surface, flags were fluttering, people were shuttled back and forth, and there was no decrease in troops, but in fact, the stables were mostly empty.

Zhao Tai put down his telescope and took a look with his naked eyes. There were cavalry galloping outside the Mongolian camp, but there were not many of them, and the Mongolian cavalry all had two horses. Normally, the stables were full of war horses.

"What did your Majesty find?" Tang Liang couldn't help but ask.

Zhao Tai picked up the telescope again and said while looking at it: "Kublai Khan has done a very good job and can confuse most people, but he would not have thought that I have a telescope. The reality of his camp has been completely destroyed by me.

Keep your eyes peeled!"

Kublai Khan had calculated everything, but he didn't expect that Zhao Tai had such a sharp weapon as a telescope.

Under the telescope, the Mongolian camp looked like standing naked in front of Zhao Tai.

Tang Liang, Chang Yu, Li Chunzhu and others heard this and said happily: "How about Kublai Khan's division of troops?"

Zhao Tai watched for a while and confirmed again and again that the Mongolian army was indeed missing most of its horses, which showed that Mongolia had indeed divided its forces.

After all, there are so many war horses that it is impossible to hide them.

Zhao Tai put away the telescope and said, "That's right! The troops have been divided, and the ones leaving are the cavalry troops!"

Tang Liang saw that the situation developed exactly according to Zhao Tai's prediction, and he couldn't help but admired, "Your Majesty, what a wonderful plan!"

Zhao Tai was still not sure, so he waved his hand and said, "Go to the other three gates and have a look!"

At that moment, Zhao Tai and his party hurried down to the city, mounted their horses, and went to observe the situation of the Mongolian camps outside the other three gates.

Zhao Tai observed carefully and found that most of the horses in each battalion of the Mongolian army were missing, so he said to everyone: "We are guarding Pizhou, resisting the Mongols, and buying time for the people of Jianghuai and the Song army to set up defenses. Now that the war between Mongolia and Song Dynasty has begun, the Mongolian army has already

By entering Huainan, we no longer need to hold on to Pizhou."

Upon hearing this, all the generals knew that it was time to break out of the encirclement. They all stood up straight and looked at Zhao Tai, waiting for him to give orders.

Zhao Tai glanced at the generals and said, "Now that Kublai Khan has fallen into the trap, and the Mongolian and horse troops have left Pizhou, our chance to break out has arrived."

"Your Majesty, please give the order!" Tang Liang said: "Where should we break out of the encirclement?"
Chapter completed!