On the south bank of the Baihe River, after the two hundred cannons were fired, Chang Yuchun asked Deng Yudao: "Boyan, this vast fog can't be seen clearly, it won't hit Guo Si's head." ”

Deng Yu looked at Ma Du, "The cannons are all tuned by Lord Ma, you ask him!" ”

Ma Du spread his hands, "I can only say that I hit the shell to the location that I measured last night, and I am afraid that Commander Guo in the clouds and fog will find the wrong position." ”

Suddenly, there was a non-stop explosion on the other side of the river, and the sound of this explosion was familiar to Madu, the sound of a new grenade. According to the pre-agreement, at this time, Guo Ying should complete the assembly in the fog, turn around and go straight to the enemy's Chinese army.

Xu Da, who had not spoken, suddenly slapped his thigh, "Guo Ying is done!" Chang Yuchun, you lead the pioneer to cross the river immediately, don't let this group of rabbits go back to the nest! ”

Xu Da gave an order, Chang Yuchun immediately crossed the river with the vanguard army, and before the clouds cleared, news came from the other side of the river that the Duke of the Fifty-Eight Kingdoms had been captured alive, and he was stunned by a dumb grenade. The next step was much easier, and the remaining 10,000 or so defenders in the city saw that the commander had been captured, and either fled or surrendered.

Xu Da immediately ordered the vanguard army to enter the city, waiting for the arrival of the main army to repair, and at the same time building a camp to prevent the Yuan army from attacking, and at the same time building various construction machinery. Ma Du couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of old blood when he heard this, what else did the Yuan army attack, and at this time, Emperor Zheng Bacheng was packing up his baggage in the harem.

Could it be that Xu Da did it on purpose, as rumors in history, it was Lao Zhu who instructed Xu Da to deliberately let the emperor run away?

Ma Du suggested: "Why do you have to wait, why is the marshal not afraid that Emperor Mengyuan will escape?" ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this, and laughed again, this time there was not even a person to help him speak.

Deng Yu said with a smile: "Why did Emperor Zhizheng run away, the ancestral foundation is gone, and he is not one of those guards, he is the emperor, this is his country." ”

"I mean, what if he escapes?"

Chang Yuchun said: "Where did you get so many ifs, don't look at us that we have captured most of the country, but Meng Yuan's family business is still big." Shanxi, Ganshan, Liaodong and the borderless grassland desert, they will not give up the capital so easily. ”

Guo Ying also said: "The Mongols are all soldiers, and more than 100,000 people can easily be gathered in the capital. Although Wang Baobao is at odds with the Yuan court, he will definitely not watch us capture Dadu, he still has more than 100,000 iron cavalry under his command, we will inevitably suffer from the enemy, and we should be fully prepared now. ”

Hearing everyone say this, Ma Du felt that only Emperor Zhizheng himself would agree with him in this world.

Xu Da didn't say a word, and when he saw that everyone was silent, he said: "Boren, you will send a light cavalry outside the capital to check early tomorrow morning." ”

On the second day, Yu Chun took two thousand shots and set off in the morning, and came back in the evening, bringing news that shocked the eyes of the generals. Emperor Zhizheng ignored the dissuasion of his ministers, and fled from Jiande Gate last night with the concubine, the crown prince, the crown princess and 100,000 soldiers and civilians.

Chang Yuchun couldn't help but roar when he heard the news, "It's a great success!" The other generals also beat their chests one after another, and it seemed that they had all planned to catch Emperor Yuan Shun and made a great achievement.

Chang Yuchun pulled Ma Du and said, "Xuanzhong, how did you know that the Tartar Emperor would run away!" ”

"Guess, it's the same as you guess that the Tartar Emperor won't run away. There are indeed 100,000 people in the capital, but what kind of birds they are, you have been fighting for more than half a year, and the Tartar Emperor is also clear. As for Wang Baobao, he may also come to save Dadu, but he will never serve the Tartar Emperor, and the Tartar Emperor does not trust him, let alone entrust his life and death to him. As for the ancestral inheritance, he must not care too much, otherwise why would he make it like this......

"Humph! Hindsight! Chang Yuchun threw down Ma Du's arm and said to Xu Da: "Dashuai, please let your subordinates go down to chase the Tartar Emperor, and he will be captured in one fell swoop!" ”

Xu Da shook his head and said: "No, tomorrow I still need you to lead the vanguard army to attack Dadu, and let Guo Ying take the cavalry under his command to chase the Tartar Emperor." ”

Chang Yuchun was a little disappointed, but he still bowed down to receive the order, but said: "Guo Ying's men and horses are a little less, but there are more than 100,000 horses." ”

Guo Ying said: "I'm afraid that the prince of the Tartars won't be able to catch up, and I'm afraid that he will be out of Juyong Pass at this time." At most, catch some of the family members of the Yuan soldiers, and I have enough of them. He bowed his hand to Xu Da and said goodbye, turned around and left the camp.

"The generals of each battalion immediately returned to the camp to bury the pot and make rice, so that the soldiers could be fed, and they would sleep peacefully, and tomorrow when the camp was ugly, they would set off and attack Dadu." The generals took the orders and left.

Xu Da saw that Ma Du was still there, so he said, "Xuanzhong is in trouble? Don't go back to camp early to rest, you have to wake up early tomorrow! ”

"It's okay, I just want to say that it's not good to let the soldiers eat too much at night." Madu arched his hand and left the tent. Waiting for the tent to be empty, Xu Da let out a sigh of relief, slowly lay down on the back of the chair, and saw him muttering softly: "Count you running fast......"

On the second day, the vanguard army of Chang Yuchun and a part of the Chinese army that arrived first, a total of 100,000 people, set off for Dadu, the two places were not far apart, and at noon they arrived outside the gate of Qihua in Dadu. Under the bright sun, the city head is waving flags, and the Yuan soldiers are holding swords and bows, looking like they are ready to fight.

Just looking at the city walls and towering towers, Ma Du knew that Dadu was definitely the largest city he had ever seen since he crossed. The circumference of the walls of Pingjiang and Yingtian (not expanded), which are also considered large cities, is less than twenty li, but most of them are close to sixty li. The width of the city wall of Dadu is 30 meters, which is twice that of Pingjiang and Yingtian, and it can even gallop on it, and the height of the city wall is more than 10 meters.

If you want to defeat such a heroic city, it is impossible not to pay blood. There was a big gap between the reality and the imagination, and after a round of scattered bombs, the originally dense defenders on the city fled in terror and roared, and only seven or eight tattered flags were left on the city.

Xu Da was puzzled and asked the soldiers to fill in the wide and deep moat, and during the whole process of filling the river, not a single arrow was shot on the city. Only filled in less than a zhang wide, Xu Da couldn't wait to let the soldiers carry the flying ladder over to the city to check.

The soldier cowered and put his head on the top of the city wall to look at it, then turned his head and shouted, "No one! ”