Of course, this "Complaint Conference" was not completely useless. At least it made Yang Zhen understand the few people around him better and feel more at ease.

Moreover, this heart-to-heart talk, that is, letting the brothers under you "complain" can more effectively and quickly inspire everyone's fighting spirit to share the same hatred and the same enemy.

The men and horses in the advance camp, especially those under Yang Zhen who were from the Guangning rear guard, each of them is burdened with countless blood, tears and hatred.

Their homes in Guangning and Yizhou were destroyed, their families were killed, and they themselves had been fighting with the Jurchens through life and death for many years. It can be said that all of them had deep hatred against the Jurchen Tatars.

Among them are national hatreds and even more family hatreds.

They may not be aware of the national hatred, or even if they are aware of it, they don't care too much.

However, once the family hatred they carry is aroused, it is definitely a force that cannot be underestimated.

When we face the Tatars again in the future, these advance battalion soldiers who are burdened with blood and tears of hatred, and who are clearly aware of these hatreds, will fight again, and it will be unstoppable.

At the very least, Yang Zhen was able to achieve the purpose of uniting all the soldiers in the advance battalion through this method of letting the soldiers complain in public and tell their blood and tears of hatred with the Jurchen Tatars in public.

If a team wants to unite and unite, it must have a common goal and a consistent pursuit.

For Yang Zhen, if he wants to truly unite the soldiers in the advance battalion and make them not afraid of hardship, fatigue, or even death, and unite under one banner to fight, he must give them a goal and let them know

What exactly are you fighting for?

This goal is to take revenge and regain our homeland.

It's just that the time is not ripe yet. He is still a guest general in Songshan City. Even if he has ideas, he cannot completely ignore the opinions of other generals.

When the time comes in the future, this matter must be arranged immediately.

This morning, he had already seen the results of this from the people around him.

Let them once again feel and chew the pain and humiliation inflicted on them by the enemy, which will definitely increase their hatred of the enemy exponentially.

By noon, it was sunny and sunny in Songshan City, and the east gate, which was opened by Xu Changyong's subordinate, was finally cleared.

In the east gate of Songshan City, the two heavy iron doors that had been closed for more than two months were finally opened with difficulty amid bursts of harsh creaking sounds.

When Songshan City was being expanded, Sun Chengzong, who was the governor of Jiliao at the time, spared no effort in manpower and material resources and spent huge sums of money to lay a very solid foundation for the defense of Songshan City.

The result was that although Songshan City was small, it was thick-skinned and could withstand a beating, allowing the Manchu and Qing troops to hit the iron plate with their kicks during the Songshan offensive and defensive battle.

If this were not the case, no matter how good Jin Guofeng and his troops were at defending the city and no matter how determined they were, they would not be able to hold on for so long in the face of repeated bombardments from dozens of Tatar red cannons.

Because once the city wall is destroyed by the Tatar cannon, how can they with less than 3,000 troops stop the Tatar army of tens of thousands?!

When Yang Zhen heard that the area inside and outside the east gate had been cleared, he left the City God's Temple station with all the soldiers around him and came to visit.

Before, when I looked at it from a distance, I couldn't actually tell the actual height. Now that I've reached the base of the city wall and looked up, I can really feel how tall the Songshan City Wall is.

On both sides of the east gate, there is a wide ramp to the city that extends far to both sides.

The ramp up to the city is not a stepped one, but a simple ramp paved with thick green bricks and strips of stone. It is perfectly possible to get on a horse-drawn cart and go straight from the bottom of the city to the top of the city.

Yang Zhen and the others passed by under the ramp, and everyone looked at them in admiration.

When they came to the city gate, Xu Changyong led people to wait there. When he saw Yang Zhen coming over, he said after a few steps: "Brother Yang! Songshan City is not big, but the walls are high and thick, and they are all made of blue bricks and stones.

, I think it’s not much worse than Ningyuan City! No wonder Deputy General Jin and the others can hold back tens of thousands of Tatar troops with only three thousand troops!

"Look at the city gate, it's all made of the same stone! This city gate hole alone, from the inside to the outside, is probably not more than a foot or two deep! And the two city gates are all made of black jujube wood and iron.

It weighs more than a thousand pounds!”

Yang Zhen stepped forward, thanking Xu Changyong for his hard work, and followed him to the city gate, observing the situation at the east gate.

Because there is no urn, there are two gates in the city gate from outside to inside.

The first one is the gate that is opened and closed daily. It is at the end of the doorway, immediately outside the city, and opens inwards.

The second one is a hanging gate, which is hung on the top of the city gate hole with iron ropes. The mechanism for lowering and pulling up is on the top of the city.

Once the enemy troops outside the city break through the first gate, the defenders at the top of the city can urgently lower the second gate to continue to isolate the enemy troops.

Yang Zhen led everyone into the city gate cave for inspection. After a while, Zhang Degui, Yang Shen, Pan Wenmao, Li Lu and others, hearing that Yang Zhen was coming, also came down to meet him.

Following Yang Zhen's order, Zhang Degui took charge of the defense of the east gate. Now he has placed the artillery team and the grenadier team on the top of the city and settled them down respectively. He has also completed the handover with the team Lu Pinqi arranged to patrol the east gate.

A group of people met in the city gate cave, and then they all followed Yang Zhen outside and stopped on the stone steps outside the east gate, looking eastward and talking.

Not far outside the city, the long trenches and piled earth walls used by the Tatars to siege the city are still there. After Xu Changyong led his team to clear the city gate, he sent his Mongolian soldiers to destroy the east gate of Songshan.

The earth and stone walls were gone.

"Brother Xu! Tell your brothers that you only need to destroy the section of wall facing the east gate, and push down the earth and rocks to just fill the trench below! You can keep the rest first! These trenches and earth walls,

It may be useful in the future! With these things, when the Tatars come again in the future, our musketry team, artillery team, and grenadiers can go out to fight in the city!"

After hearing this, the generals around Yang Zhen heard a different meaning and went to see Yang Zhen one after another.

Xu Changyong ordered his men to run to deliver the order, and then turned back to Yang Zhen and said: "Brother Yang, what do you mean - the Tatars may come back again!?"

Seeing Xu Changyong's somewhat surprised and doubtful expression, Yang Zhen nodded to him solemnly, and then said:

"That's for sure! I judge that in as long as one year or as short as half a year, the Tatars will definitely attack the city again! If you trust me, Yang Zhen, then you must prepare for this from now on!"

Listening to Yang Zhen's vows and categorical words, Xu Changyong was a little distracted for a moment.

Several other people, such as Zhang Degui, Li Lu, Pan Wenmao, Yang Shen and others, also looked at Yang Zhen with surprise on their faces.

In their view, the Tatars failed to attack Jinzhou first and then turned to besiege Songshan. Whether they wanted to storm such a strong city or mobilize the Ming army from Ningyuan to come to rescue, however, their purpose of encircling the point and seeking reinforcements had already failed.

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Since the Tatars have already tried this method and it has proven to be useless, why do they continue to do these things that are destined to be in vain?!

At this time, Li Lu in the crowd couldn't restrain his doubts, stood up and asked Yang Zhen: "Sir! Why do the Tatars come again?! They have already defeated Jinzhou, and facts have proved that they can't defeat it.

"This time they besieged Songshan and fought for more than two months, but they couldn't defeat it! Even if the Tatars come again, the result will probably be the same. If that's the case, why do they come again?!

"Besides, even if we garrison troops in Jinzhou City and Songshan, everyone knows that within a few years, we will not have the strength to go north to regain the lost territory, and it is unlikely that we will take the initiative to fight them!
Chapter completed!