May 6, June 26 in the Western calendar, the day after Operation Guillotine was launched.

Liu Xingzuo, the general of the Red Flag, as in the past, took over the vigil of Sakha Ling very early.

After sending Sakha Ling, who was smiling, left, Liu Xingzuo stood at the edge of the camp with a waist knife on his shoulder, silently looking at the Golden Governor Wall more than two hundred meters away. This long wall, which originally emitted the yellow glow of masonry, has now been painted in more than half a month of bloody battles, and it is a color that makes people feel uncomfortable just by looking at it. The dried blood stains clinging to the loess, mixed with gunsmoke and colorful human metabolic waste, have become an indescribable form under the accumulation of sea breeze and sunlight over time.

In the six fierce attacks launched before, the Houjin troops, which had set out from under the earthen wall, were dealt a crushing blow under the long wall of the Golden Governor. Like the waves at high tide hitting a hard reef, groups of Jiannu rushing towards the long wall were knocked down by an endless stream of bullets and cannonballs. The staggered shape of the wall was always at an angle greater than or equal to that on both sides, and every Houjin warrior who tried to climb the wall had to endure lead bullets from the side and back. It takes at least 15 seconds to climb the 9-meter-high wall, but unfortunately, only double-digit Jiannu survived the most thrilling 15 seconds, and then they were killed by a collective fire on the wall, and their broken bodies fell straight off the wall, adding a layer of thickness to the pile of people more than half a meter thick in the corner.

After capturing the earthen wall in the first siege, the upper echelons of Jin once thought that the wall of the Golden Governor would also be breached in one fell swoop. As a result, despite the heavy losses in the Battle of Tuqiang, Houjin still launched a fierce offensive on the second day. But soon they had to realize that breaking through the earthen wall did not mean anything, and the Ao-Song people did not seem to want to use the earthen wall as an impregnable barrier when they were building defensive facilities.

The most obvious evidence is that the earthen wall was built with only one battlement. The side facing the Golden Governor Wall was not covered at all, and the Jiannu who climbed the earthen wall would not have a chance to breathe, they must immediately climb down the earthen wall and charge towards the Golden Governor Wall more than a hundred meters away, otherwise they could only be killed by the Ao Song people in an unobstructed open view.

Liu Xingzuo was already very sure that Jiannu would not be able to break through the Golden Governor Wall this time. Hehe, it's ridiculous to say, the goal set before the war was to break through Lushun and completely drive the Ao-Song people out of southern Liaoning, but in practice, even Jinzhou couldn't get through.

The sun has finally risen. Looking at the long wall standing still in the sun, Liu Xingzuo remembered a poem for no reason.

The mountains and rivers turn desolate, and the new battlefield is ten miles away. The horses are silent, and the sun is set outside the city of Jinzhou.

He frowned and thought for a moment before remembering where he had read the poem. It was thrown from a hot air balloon from the Ao-Song people a few days ago, and the high-level officials of Houjin have seen it. Liu Xingzuo liked the last two lines of the poem very much, but he felt that the poem looked like it was written after the victory, perhaps the Australian Song people predicted their final victory?

Standing slanting sun, standing slanting sun, heh. I will also set the sun in the evening.

"Come, Aita (Note 1)." Sakha's shouts were heard. Liu Xingzuo turned to look at him, Sakha Ling rode his horse and galloped in front of him, bent down and said, "The Great Khan has issued an order, and the generals above are all going to the big tent, you come quickly." ”

Liu Xingzuo agreed, took the reins from his subordinates, and turned over on his horse. While galloping with Sakha Ling, Liu Xingzuo said in a low voice: "Lord Belle, I don't know what happened to the Great Khan this time? ”

Sakha replied with a smile: "I guess I'm going to retire, my mother has been fighting in Golden State for so long, and I've taken a fart, I've taken several forts on Amma's side, and there are dead people here." ”

Liu Xingzuo nodded slightly and did not make a sound. The two crossed the former fortified area that had been filled in in front of the earthen wall, and their destination was the city of Northern Jinzhou, where the Great Khan of Later Jin was located.

It takes a quarter of an hour to travel from the eastern camp to the North Golden State, even on horseback. Liu Xingzuo galloped on the black soil of southern Liaoning, and his eyes were always on the large number of Houjin soldiers around him. He judged that the Houjin troops had begun to shrink, and the Jiannu in the rear drove the Baoyi to load the grain and grass onto the wagons, and the few remaining soldiers had slowly advanced along the dirt road towards North Jinzhou.

The closer you get to the Northern Golden State, the more obvious the signs of retreat. The end point of the horse-drawn convoy from the east and west camps is North Golden State, and the ground shows the scene of three points of North Golden State and East and West Daying, connected by horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.

When they arrived at the city gate of North Jinzhou, the entire North Golden State was just a hastily built barracks, and the so-called city gate was just a rough opening, and the Zhenghuang Qiding, who had been on duty here in the past, did not stop Sahaxuan and Liu Xingzuo, who came forward. They watched with some excitement as the two of them rushed into the city, as if they were glad that they didn't have to die under the walls of the Golden Governor.

The flag of Huang Taiji fluttered in the middle of the city, and Liu Xingzuo saw that around the sweat flag, there were four flags around the flag, representing the blue flag, the blue flag, the white flag, and the yellow flag.

The place where the Great Khan of the Later Jin Khan held the meeting was already full of people, and hundreds of people who were eligible to participate from the five flags stood from the house to the door, and the Mongolian and Jurchen languages were intertwined and talking. After Liu Xingzuo arrived, Sakha said to him and walked into the house by himself. Liu Xingzuo was only a general, so he could only stay outside the house and stand with a bunch of equally low-level Jiannu.

After a while, there was a noise of people and horses in the street, and Liu Xingzuo looked up and saw a tall fat man coming on horseback, followed by dozens of elite warriors.

Liu Xingzuo knew that the person was Huang Taiji. I saw Huang Taiji wearing a suit of armor, with a waist knife hanging from his waist, and getting off the horse with a gloomy face. He strode through the crowd outside the house and lifted the blanket from the door.

Liu Xingzuo turned sideways to let go of Jiannu, who followed in, and clearly heard the words coming from the house: "Fifth brother, I asked you to attack again today, why did you remove the people?" There are also old twelve, old fifteen, who killed a group of Han people yesterday, why do you want to kill people today, are there a lot of clothed minions in the blue flag? Why did you start withdrawing the grain and grass as well? ”

"Starling, don't blame me, those Nikans don't want to attack the city, they spend their days in the trenches, and they don't want to fight the long wall without killing a batch."

"Old eight, since you are determined to withdraw, if you don't transport the baggage back as soon as possible, it will inevitably be pursued by Ao Song Nikan when you really retreat, but you will have to burn it all."

"Ridiculous! If you withdraw today, tomorrow he will withdraw, and he will leave his position without an order, how can it be justified? Since ancient times, the army has withdrawn, and the grain and grass have been openly transported away without daylight, and the people of the Australian Song Dynasty must have discovered that now the whole army is passive! ”

Liu Xingzuo was listening energetically, and suddenly heard Saha's voice: "Lord of the Yellow Banner, Amato, let me ask you, the 30,000 army has fought in Jinzhou for more than a month, and has not made an inch, and now it is ready to evacuate, I don't know how to appease the thousands of warriors who died under the long wall in vain?" ”

There was silence in the room. Liu Xingzuo's heart was secretly refreshed, knowing that Dai Shan, who was hundreds of miles away to the east, was going to take the opportunity to make trouble, and the authority of Huang Taiji would definitely be challenged. It is important to know that the other four flags have suffered a lot of losses. Now the two red flags are the first to be launched, in addition to the yellow flag mastered by Hauge, the other three flags must follow up.

I only heard Huang Taiji sneer a few times, and then laughed again, and there was a faint bitterness in the laughter: "Now Lin Dan Khan is weak and powerless, and I need to attack Dajin, Yuan Chonghuan in Liaoxi, Mao Wenlong in Liaodong, and Song in Liaonan. Southern Liaoning is located between the east and the west, no matter where to attack, the Ao Song people can go north with a large army and smash the Yellow Dragon. It is necessary to know that the Australian ships are strong and artillery, even if there are not tens of thousands of elite soldiers, who can prevent them from shelling coastal towns from the sea? I know that you have complained a lot, saying that I broke the peace of southern Liaoning, such an idea is really ridiculous. Before the war, it was true that the Australian Song people were in Jinzhou, but they did not go on a northern expedition, and they were really unwilling. Although, my Dajin still has thousands of soldiers under Fuzhou. If you keep Fuzhou, can you not keep it? The Australians are well-ridden, and once Fuzhou is lost, it can be covered in one day. Gaizhou is lost, I am in the center of Liao, how to defend it? ”

"Since the old Khan started to attack the Ming, the sky borders me in the east of Liao, and the Ming country regards me as an enemy, and the war with the Ming is endless day and night, and we should know that this is an important matter. I conquer a big country with a small country, and I cut down a tree with an axe, and first remove its branches, and then its tree will fall by itself, so that every year there will be a place to go to war, and I cannot allow the Ming country to be relieved. Two years ago, the Australians landed in Lushun and were invincible against our big gold, repeatedly defeating the two white flags, and now they are firmly in the Golden State, and this maggot on the tarsal bone threatens our flank all the time. I Dajin established the country with force, and it is difficult to do anything if I don't stand up. Today, the Dongjiang River headquarters is based in Liaodong, with North Korea as the foundation, like a big tree rooted in the soil, taking its essence. A few years ago, Da Beile personally led a large army to attack the Li Dynasty, but was defeated by Mao Wenlong in Tieshan, and it was later found out that the Ao Song Dynasty assisted Dongjiang Town with many ordnance. ”

"Since the Australian Song Dynasty intervened in Liaodong, except for Liaoxi, the other two sides of Dajin will be defeated in every battle, and if they are not defeated, they will be defeated, how can they ever achieve victory? If you don't pull out the Golden State, you can't pull out Lushun; If you don't pull out Lushun, you can't break the Dongjiang River, and you don't understand this matter? Lushun is really a problem for the henchmen! ”

Huang Taiji was in an impassioned mood when the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded from the street. A knight covered in dust rushed out of the house, turning over and falling from his horse. The warrior hurriedly went up to check, and the knight barely got up and shouted: "Emergency military situation, Ao Song has broken through Shiheyi, and Xinjin may have been taken!" ”