Entering the twelfth lunar month, the main forces of the Song and Jin armies met in Daming Mansion.

In the entire battlefield of Daming Prefecture, the Song Army's Hebei Front Army combined the imperial camp's front army, right army, and navy army, with a total of more than 60,000 combat troops and more than 70,000 civilians accompanying the camp; the Jin Army's Longde Prefecture March Division totaled 50,000 households, and the Hedong Front Army had a total of more than 60,000 soldiers.

The 40,000 households who worked hard to support, plus the 40,000 households from the local Marching Department of Daming Prefecture, totaled 130,000 households, with 130,000 soldiers, infantry and cavalry, and an unknown number of civilians responsible for logistics and transportation.

That is to say, there are about 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers signed.

Comparing the strength of the two sides, even if there is no need to emphasize the unprecedented 60,000 to 70,000 strong cavalry group of the Jin Army, the strength is definitely obvious.

In addition, the Jin Army also controls the administrative power and control of almost all surrounding counties and counties, which can ensure peripheral support and dispatch. More importantly, the Yuan Dynasty, the capital of the Daming Prefecture, which is four or ten miles away and strangles the strategic point of Hebei.

The city is still under the control of the Jin army.

In this situation, coupled with Laohe and Ali in the north, and Wang Bolong in the northeast, the Jin army actually had a vague encirclement posture as soon as it came up.

From the perspective of the Jin Army, the Song Army was already beleaguered internally and externally, which was not bad at all.

Of course, with the Song Army's arrangement, it doesn't matter whether they form an encirclement or not - the Song Army doesn't seem to be planning to leave, and they are prepared to face the internal and external difficulties like this. Maybe they even want to pull out their teeth and capture Yuancheng face to face.

Gossips are rare, and when I turn back to the present, I only talk about the huge scene of the Jin army's battalions and battles, claiming to move mountains and seas, but in fact, in the first few days after entering the twelfth lunar month, the battle situation was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations... This

This is not to say that the battle was not fierce and the scene was not big, but it was just that the Jin army was beaten unilaterally.

Facing the huge Yuancheng, the Song army was divided into groups, firing artillery on three sides of the land and sailing boats on the river. The bombardment continued. At the same time, the troops were well organized, either digging tunnels, leveling the land, or starting to formally build giant siege towers.

, or focus on small dismountable ballistae and eight-niu crossbows to clear out the more threatening towers on Yuancheng.

In contrast, the Jin army in Yuancheng was not discouraged. After the arrival of almost endless reinforcements, the morale of the defenders in the entire city also increased sharply. Some of the artillery carts that the city had hastily assembled also began to fight back across the walls.

And after entering the twelfth lunar month, small-scale death squads would be sent out of the city to attack almost every night.

However, compared with the outside of the city, the number and size of artillery vehicles and the flexibility of their positions were all limited. Second, the Song army had an obvious inner fortress surrounding the city, and their attacks often failed, so they fell into the trap.

Clearly at a disadvantage.

And as time went by, although Yuancheng could not be said to be besieged on all sides, it did suffer great weakening and shaken. Seventy or eighty turrets were concentrated and destroyed in a few days, and more than a dozen of the most threatening and partial walls were destroyed.

Cracks began to appear under the bombardment of artillery vehicles, and casualties gradually became a problem that cannot be ignored in the city.

Even what is not clear outside the city is that in order to ensure the wood and building materials for continued cannon fire and repair of the city defense, Gao Jingshan set an example by demolishing his own mansion and only spent the whole day in Cuiyun Building... And Cuiyun Building

The reason why we stay here is simply because this is the commanding height in the northern half of the city, making it convenient for observation and command.

In these days, the Jin Army brigade to the west of the Yellow River, not to mention moving mountains and seas, did not even have the chance to attack in an all-out manner, because they immediately saw the Song Army navy that Wanhu Ali and Piaohe reminded.

profit.

Frankly speaking, the Jin Army had expected and understood the navy's ability to block rivers. In the previous battle at Huaishang, Han Shizhong's sea boat entered Huaihe, which made the Jin Army lose the possibility of crossing the river; later Zhang Rong led the

The Liangshan Bo Navy entered the Yellow River and controlled the course of the Yellow River, which formed a strategic advantage and basically prevented the Jin army from moving southward from the lower reaches. This time, the Jin army gathered and took advantage of the Yellow River.

The frozen gap period wiped out Yue Fei's mentality.

However, even so, they really did not have enough understanding of the navy's powerful control ability in such narrow terrain.

Of course, they soon realized that the so-called armor, war horses, and dense military presence were almost a joke in front of the moving Eight Bull Crossbow.

The Yellow River channel of several hundred paces wide and the absolute intimidating distance of six to seven hundred paces on both sides of the Yellow River instantly caused the Jin Army to lose some of its unrealistic thoughts. It also made the Jin Army's efforts in vain and impressive, but they could not stretch out their arms and legs.

Support Yuancheng. As a result, the city was at an obvious disadvantage due to the siege of the Song Army and the obvious comparison of military strength. However, the peripheral Jin Army, which was supposed to encircle the Song Army in turn and also had an obvious strength advantage, fell into a disadvantage due to the existence of the Song Army's navy.

The embarrassing situation of being unable to organize an attack.

Even under the protection of the Song Army's navy, the Song Army's logistics supplies were still continuously transported along the Yellow River.

This situation, to be honest, did not go beyond the imagination of the top brass of the Jin Army, but it still had a strong impact on morale.

"What if the troops are scattered two hundred miles apart and cross the river together? Zhang Rong has several warships that can carry eight oxen crossbows. Can he really stop them?"

"So what if we cross the river dispersedly? It's not like there are no General Ali and General Piaohe on the other side of the river... Now that we have crossed the river, in such a narrow place, with eight oxen crossbows on both sides, can we spread out our troops to attack?"

"Hmph... With all due respect, Piaohe and his subordinates are both Bohai people, so they couldn't attack it!"

"In this case, it is better to persuade Gaodu to surrender early and ask the Jurchen warriors to fight on their own."

"Even the Jurchens, didn't General Ali also fight? Can't you listen to what he said?"

"Although General Ali was brave back then, he is old now!"

"Therefore, you are the only one who can use this great Jin Kingdom. There are 60,000 soldiers from the Song Dynasty wearing armor on the opposite side! You are so tyrannical, how about trying it with your ten thousand households?! We can happily cross the river to rest.

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In Ligu Town, which served as the core of the Jin Kingdom's main camp, in the courtyard of a large family with two flags standing, as Ali and Piaohe crossed the river again to pay their respects, a military discussion immediately started again at the level of ten thousand households.

, but soon a quarrel broke out at the military meeting, and the quarrel quickly became fierce, chaotic and diverted.

Faced with this situation, Wu Shu had long been impatient. At the same time, Marshal Ba Lisu, who was sitting side by side with Wu Shu, remained expressionless and silent, which inevitably made His Highness the King of Wei

He became a little cautious... He didn't want to overshadow the other, especially since this quarrel was about the same thing on the surface, but in fact it was directly related to the authority of Ba Lisu.

However, as he heard the quarrel becoming more and more disconnected from the war itself, the ruling king of the Jin Kingdom couldn't bear it. He hesitated for a moment, and finally turned around and signaled, asking the Taishi slave behind him to come over and say:

"Tell the marshal, please feel free to deal with Wanyan Benjian. I will only agree and cooperate with him no matter what!"

The Grand Master's slave understood, and immediately took advantage of the chaos to turn behind Wanyan Balisu and face him again.

This is considered the correct answer.

Across the table, after receiving the promise, Ba Lisu immediately said loudly in the audience: "Wanyan is here to see you!"

With a sharp shout, the courtyard became silent for an instant.

But immediately, Wanhu, the one who had the loudest quarrel before and was almost the youngest in the courtyard, just sneered, and then said in an almost provocative tone: "What are the orders of the marshal? Could it be that after the marshal takes office, we Jurchens

Have you changed the rules and stopped talking even during military discussions? When Taizu was there that day, even Mou Ke who was present could criticize his mistakes!"

"In military discussions, instead of discussing military affairs, you criticize your colleagues for no reason. Isn't this an act of destroying the tradition of military discussions?" Lisu, who was sitting there motionless, responded with the same coldness, and then blurted out the order. "Wanyan

Ben Chi is too selfish and deliberately provokes military discussions. He should be whipped twenty times. Who is against it?!"

As soon as the words fell, the whole courtyard was silent. Not only Wanyan Ben saw himself stunned on the spot, but even Wu Shu, who had just made the promise in private, was momentarily stunned.

Besides, it is certainly true that Wanyan ran into trouble and got angry when he saw me, and everyone knows the reason. He was just dissatisfied and refused to accept the decision to become the marshal.

Think about it, in terms of closeness, Wanyan Benjian, although he is from far away, has been raised under A Guda's tent since he was a child, so he can be regarded as a direct descendant of A Guda; in terms of mountain top, he is from the Eastern Route Army, and this battle is also an Eastern Route Army ninety thousand households away.

There are more than four thousand households of the Western Route Army; taking a step back, Wanyan Benjian, as the commander of the Marching Division of Longde Prefecture, this time brought five ten thousand households under his jurisdiction, which is also stronger than the direct descendants of Taiyuan from Ba Lisu.

Much stronger.

Even before the twelfth lunar month, that is, before Wu Shu and Bali Suhan led the troops from the Hedong front to gather together, Wanyan Beng saw the reorganized camp. At that time, he did not see him shouting that Ali was old and Lihe

We are from Bohai, so we crossed the river in dozens of ways.

But now, you are talking like this in front of Ali and Piaohe?

In a word, Xiangzhuang's sword dance is meant for Pei Gong. Even those who don't know this Han family allusion can understand what is going on.

It is precisely because of this that when the war was in an awkward and incompetent situation, whether Wanyan Benjian took the opportunity to get emotional or Wanyan Lisu took the opportunity to establish his power, it was considered a normal development... But the problem is, people

If you are dissatisfied with a few complaints, you have to beat someone else to establish your authority. The standard number three person in the army is twenty lashes, which seems a bit beyond expectation.

This is no longer the era when Nianhan beat Wu and begged to buy twenty orphan crutches!

This moment is the same as that moment.

"I have a gold medal bestowed by Taizu, who dares to whip me?!" After a moment of silence, Wanyan Benjian came back to his senses, became furious on the spot, and directly pulled his gold medal from his waist, and then

Holding gold medals, they shouted fiercely at each other. "You marching thousands of households, look at your own gold medals, and then look at mine, is it the same thing? My future was publicly promised by Taizu when he was still alive! I think so

Look, who in this army dares to whip me?!"

At the end of the sentence, this guy almost shoved the gold medal in his hand right in front of Ba Lisu's nose.

But it was this action and these words that finally aroused a person's thunderous wrath... It was too late to say that, but at that moment, Ba Lisu was still silent, but Wu Shu suddenly stood up, and then picked himself up and Ba Lisu

As soon as he left, the riding crop on the table was whipped towards Wanyan Benjian who was pressing forward.

The poor golden man was so arrogant just now and thought he was invincible in the army. The next moment, he saw that he was one of the only two ruling princes among Taizu's parents. He might also be the real master of the East Route Army. He personally

He came over to whip himself, but he didn't dare to resist at all. In panic, the only thing this gold medalist, who was a generation higher than Wushu, could do was to quickly put away the gold medal and pinch it in his arms.

He stopped to prevent the gold medal from being accidentally injured, and then just stood there with his head lowered and allowed the opponent to whip him.

This kind of whipping, through armor and fur robes, is of course unlikely to cause any substantial harm. A few whips on the face is fine, but it is extremely shocking and humiliating - after twenty whippings, the person is completely

Yan Wushu turned back to his seat and continued to pretend to be mute without saying a word, while Wanyan Benjian did not dare to say any more nonsense, and just returned to the crowd below to stand in awe.

The remaining ten thousand households were even more speechless.

"Let me tell you straight!"

Seeing that the situation was stable, Ba Lisu spoke again as if nothing was wrong. "The Yellow River is not frozen. Given the current situation, the river is blocked by the Song Navy, and they are forcibly attacking from the north and south. Not to mention that the troops cannot be deployed, and the fortifications in the north and south are by no means a display."

... Although General Ali is old, he is a veteran general and runs the army very strictly. Although most of General Piaohe's subordinates are Bohai people, because of this, he must be the one who dares to fight to rescue Gao Dutong...

If the two of them say no, it means no!"

Hearing this, Wu Shu couldn't help but glance at Ali. This veteran who used to be picky and picky about him did not say a word this time. He even faced Wanyan Ben's 'accidental injury' and insult before.

There was no reaction at all, he just let Yaohe come forward and fight with Wanyan Benjian.

I don't know if he is really old.
To be continued...