After repelling the night attack of the Mongol army, Wang Yinglin and His Majesty returned to the camp, but they did not go to bed immediately, and he was a little overexcited, and he did not sleep, and went to supper with His Majesty. There was a mess in the camp at that time, and he thought that the enemy army was going and returning, and he was nervous for a while, but after seeing that the Song army easily repelled Meng Yuan's night attack, he was no longer as overwhelmed as he was at the beginning.

However, Wang Yinglin found that the little emperor did not act at all this time, and still competed with a piece of barbecue by himself, and when he was about to ask, a guard came in to tell him that Ni Liang led the army back to the camp. Only then did he suddenly think of the little emperor's backhand that Tan Fei said, and he also understood why Ni Liang did not return to the camp after leading the army to intercept the enemy army in the morning.

Wang Yinglin is not a stupid person, he knows everything, and he will figure out the arrangement of the little emperor by stringing together what happened today. After Ni Liang went out of the camp to intercept the enemy in Taizhou, he used a trick to ambush the cavalry he led near Yangzhou City. The enemy army of the night attack retreated immediately after the failure of the attack, although the loss was not small, but it was not injured at all, and seeing that the Song army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, he could not help but relax his vigilance on the way back.

At this time, Ni Liang led the army halfway and suddenly killed, thinking that the enemy army that had just suffered a new defeat must have been panicked and had no desire to fight, and only thought about fleeing into the city quickly. Ni Liang can wave his army to cover up and kill, and it is difficult to win. And then his return also confirmed what he thought, Ni Liang suddenly killed on the way to the enemy's defeat and retreat, and the enemy was frightened and unable to organize a counterattack, and many people were killed. Its leading army pursued it to the canal, and only stopped the pursuit when it was found that the enemy had responded, and less than 30% of the enemy troops crossed the river and returned to the city safely.

At this time, when the drum was beating, the little emperor listened to the battle report, and swallowed the last piece of meat into his stomach before returning to the sleeping tent. After winning the first battle, Wang Yinglin wrote a war report overnight and sent people to Lin'an, but he couldn't sleep afterwards, and he didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. He hurriedly washed up and went to see the driver, but Wang De told him that the little emperor had already gone out of the camp to attack the city early in the morning. Because of his hard work, His Majesty did not wake him up, and informed him that after he woke up, he would check the results of the battle with the attaché of the military department and record them for future reference.

Wang Yinglin knew that the little emperor refused to wake up his followers, and said that he cared about his courtiers, but in fact, it was all 'hypocrisy', but he was afraid of his own dissuasion and deliberately did it. But now that the person is gone, he has no choice but to do what he is told......

At this time, Zhao Hao, who was under the city of Yangzhou, sneezed a few times, which caused the generals to be worried for a while, fearing that he would suffer from the cold, and even persuaded him to send him to the big tent in Xiying to 'watch the battle'. But he couldn't be idle, and carefully studied the map of Yangzhou City drawn by the scouts of various departments, and the sound of war drums outside the tent did not affect him.

In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou built the "Luocheng" of 15 miles from north to south and 7 miles from east to west under Shugang, and a large area of residential areas and industrial and commercial residences in the southeast along the ancient canal under Shugang was enveloped into the city, forming a "ten-mile long street" connected by the market. The mountain is called "Zicheng" or "Yacheng", which is the concentration of the government and the yamen. That is to say, Yangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty includes Zicheng and Luocheng, and Du Mu's poems in "the street hangs a thousand steps of willows, and the Xiaying is a two-fold city", and "two-fold city" refers to Luocheng and Zicheng. Yangzhou has also been transformed from a political and military castle into an economic and cultural city.

Since the late Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou has often been burned by soldiers, and the city has been repeatedly destroyed. Since Yang Xingmi was proclaimed King Wu in Yangzhou, the society was able to stabilize for a short time, and the city was also repaired. Later, Xu Zhihe replaced Yang Wu, changed his name to Li Yu, ascended the throne, and the country was called the Tang Dynasty (known as the Southern Tang Dynasty in history), and Yangzhou belonged to the Southern Tang Dynasty at this time. Five years after Zhou Xiande, Han Lingkun, the old general of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei and the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, seized Yangzhou from the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Yangzhou City once again became a rubble ruin. Han Lingkun built a city in the southeast corner of the former site of Tangluo City, called "Zhou Xiaocheng".

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Yangzhou City was developed on the basis of "Zhou Xiaocheng". When Li Chongjin guarded Yangzhou, he rebuilt it in the southern half of Tangcheng, and the city was twelve miles around, called "Zhou City", which was also the predecessor of the current "big city". Later, due to the damage of the city, Mo Meng built it, and the Song Dynasty also built it in May of the third year of the main road, August of the following year, the eighth year of Chunxi, and the third year of Shaoxing.

After crossing to the south, due to the threat of the Jin soldiers behind him, the importance of Yangzhou as the avant-garde base of the Southern Song Dynasty increased, and in September of the first year of Jianyan and October of the second year, Yangzhou Lu Yi repaired the city. The city built by Guo Di of Zhizhou this time, the north is made of the Chai River as a moat, the canal is the east edge and the south edge, and the west is bounded by the Baobao River, with a circumference of 2,280 zhang, about 15 li, and is called the big city.

Due to the repeated attacks of the Jin soldiers, Guo Di believed that the high terrain of the Tang Dynasty Zicheng could be condescending, which was conducive to defense and striking at the invading enemy. So rebuild the city on the site of the old Tang City, called "Fortified City", this city and the Song Dynasty city face each other in the north and south, the middle is separated by two miles, this section of the blank, it is easy to make the enemy block the two cities, it is difficult to take care of each other. So build another city that can connect these two cities, its north gate is connected to the south gate of the "fortified city", and its south gate leads directly to the Song Dynasty, which is the 'clamp city'.

Like other cities, there are Weng Castles in the east, west, north and south of the Jiacheng, among which the west gate is in the form of a double urn city, and there is a moon city in front of the main gate, which serves as a strategic pillbox to block enemy attacks. However, in addition to the grain and grass warehouse, the training ground, the armory and other preparation facilities in the city, there are only two cross streets connecting the east, west, north and south as military passages.

After suffering from the Mongol oppression, Jin moved the capital to Bianliang in May of the seventh year of Jiading, because the Song family was more afraid that Jin might force the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yangzhou affairs director Cui and the city of Yangzhou fortified the protection of Yangzhou City, dredged the moat with it, set up a suspension bridge at the gate of the Kaiyue River, and the earthen city connection between the big city and the fort city was changed to brick at this time to strengthen the defense.

Chunyou ten years Jia seems to have moved the town of two Huai, to Song Dacheng is located in the humble is not easy to hold, so in Shugang on the site of the ancient city of Guangling to build a fort city, 1,700 zhang in the week, because in the year of Baoyou to build, so called Baoyou City. After Li Tingzhi defended Yangzhou, because the Pingshan Hall can be seen down to the city, if the Yuan soldiers attacked, they could build a watchtower overlooking the city here, and build the "Pucheng" in the west of the "Baoyou City", wrap the Pingshan Hall inside, called "Pingshan Hall City", so that there is another commanding height, which can prevent the Yuan soldiers from occupying Shugang and shooting arrows into Yangzhou City.

Therefore, there are three cities in Yangzhou, namely Dacheng, Jiacheng and Baoyou City. The plane shape of the three cities, because it is large at both ends and thin in the middle, resembles a bee's waist, so it is also called "bee's waist city". In the defensive strategy of the Song Dynasty, the city was the most important defensive facility. The city defense facilities of the Song Dynasty were greatly improved. Improvement of the materials used for the city wall, the arch gate, the shape of the gate of the urn city and the double urn city, and the design of the "cross street" in the city plan.

Although the city walls are still built with earth, some parts of the city that are easy to penetrate, such as the city gate and the corners of the city wall, have been built with stronger bricks, the wall bricks are glued with white ash glutinous rice juice, and the walls on the waterfront side are densely covered with wooden stakes to strengthen the defense capability of the capital. Li Tingzhi was the last defender of Yangzhou, and he still held a lonely base to resist for ten months after the imperial court surrendered to the Yuan. It can be seen from this that the defense of Yangzhou, which is composed of three cities, is very good.

After the fall of Yangzhou, it was also difficult to escape the destruction of the city by Meng Yuan, Baoyou City, Pingshantang City, and Jiacheng were all destroyed by the Yuan soldiers, leaving only the big city that was eaten by the war. After Zhao Yu recovered Jiangnan, Yangzhou, which is close to the Yangtze River, once again became the focus of defense, and after Boyan implemented a comprehensive defense strategy last year, Yangzhou City was repaired again.

However, thinking that Yangzhou City has been continuously rebuilt for hundreds of years in various dynasties to form the scale of the 'Three Cities', it is impossible for Boyan to restore it in a year, so he can only repair it on the basis of the 'big city' that has not been destroyed. It lasted for a year, and only rebuilt the southwest corner, and the city was surrounded by more than 1,700 zhang, more than ten miles, which was much smaller than in the past.

Originally, this siege was a feint, one was to listen to the truth and reality, and the other was to show Yuxi Timur. Therefore, although the Song army attacking the west gate was full of guns and cannons, the fight was very lively, but it was still a farce, under the active defense of the defenders of Yangzhou City, they could not break through the outer moat after several attacks, and could only retreat to the camp and wait for the battle again.

Zhao Hao also raised his account recently, redivided the combat area according to the current situation, and redivided the power in order to facilitate command. He divided the troops deployed outside Yangzhou into two large battalions, east and west, with the canal as the boundary. Under the royal conquest, no one dared to take the commander, so he could only concurrently serve as the two deputy marshals, Chen Fenglin was also in charge of the West Battalion, Ni Liang was also in charge of the East Battalion, and the camp was still stationed in Yangzi Town.

The task at hand was to try to capture the city by all means, and the other task was to intensify the construction of the walled city and erect pontoon bridges over the canals, so as to link up the various battalions and prepare for a long-term siege of the city. This order seems to contradict each other, but the commanders of all the departments understand the deep meaning, and how to play Zhao Yu doesn't want to interfere too much, so the two deputy marshals will discuss it......

"How can this be reasonable, how can this be reasonable......" After assigning the task, Zhao Yu drove back to the camp, but as soon as the camp started, he heard Wang Yinglin's roar from the big tent.

"Governor Wang, why are you so angry?" Zhao Hao violated the agreement, after all, he was a little weak-hearted, and asked carefully when he entered the big tent.

"Your Majesty came back just in time, and gave comments to the ministers, but the Ministry of War actually tried to conceal military exploits, but refused to admit his mistake, insisting that the military regulations are so!" Wang Yinglin pointed to an attaché of the Military Department of the Military Department on the side and said angrily.

"Cao Langzhong, what's going on?" As soon as Zhao Yu heard that it was none of his business, he immediately put his mind at ease, and asked Cao Cheng with a bluffed face.

"Your Majesty, Wechen checked the results of the various ministries in accordance with the "Reward Regulations" today, but Governor Wang didn't know right from wrong, and not only interfered with Wechen's actions, but also reprimanded him for no reason!" After Cao Cheng gave the salute, he looked at Wang Yinglin and replied.