On the fifth day of the third month of the Republic in 1793, Li Jinghuai, who was too cautious, finally moved to the city of Lingzhou.

At this time, the first battle group and the second battle group had already rushed over to return to the division with him, and the first-line strength of the Chinese army suddenly swelled to nearly 100,000 people, with more than 300 field artillery and siege artillery!

Such a concentration of firepower on the same battlefield is also very rare in the history of the Chinese army.

Moreover, Li Jinghuai looted the grain, livestock, and seeds of all the pseudo-Xia villages along the way, as well as the grain, grass and ammunition transferred by the Chinese army from China through a series of small fortresses, so that he had sufficient supplies.

According to the current supply stock, even if it will not be transported again in the future, it will be enough for the whole army to use it for more than ten days.

With 300 cannons and 100,000 troops, if the city walls of Lingzhou can't be broken in ten days, the artillery will still be cut by themselves.

If the previous withdrawal of the Dang Xiang was a scorched-earth tactic, now this tactic has failed.

What are the hidden dangers?

Well, there is also the flooding of the Yellow River.

Lingzhou is on the edge of the Yellow River, and the party people definitely did the thing of locking water in the upper reaches, and then destroying the dam and waterproofing when the Chinese army attacked the city, and substituting water for the Chinese army.

Although it is now winter, the Yellow River is short of water, and the water surface is full of ice floes, and it is too difficult to lock in the water with the engineering ability of the party members, but if there is a threat, there is a threat, and the existence of the former enemy's general staff is to try to find these threats and then find a way to eliminate them.

After arriving at the city of Lingzhou, Li Jinghuai sent a large number of cavalry to maneuver upstream along the banks of the Yellow River.

Sure enough, the party tried to store water in several dams upstream, but it didn't go well in the winter.

The Chinese army easily dispersed the party soldiers at the upstream dams and took control of the dams in their own hands.

However, there are still hidden dangers, as there are many dams downstream near Xingqingfu, and the Yellow River is characterized by the fact that even if the dams downstream burst, the flood could spread to both sides rather than further downstream.

"So we can't drag it out for ten days." Li Jinghuai ordered the whole army: "Lingzhou City must be conquered within two days, and then the main force will live in the city!" ”

Cities are sheltered by walls and are always much stronger in the face of floods than in the wild.

……

In fact, the party had no plan to replace the army with water.

There are two reasons, the first is that the amount of work to do this in winter is too large for the party members.

The second reason is that after decades of operation, now the Xingling area is not only the core territory of the Great Xia Kingdom, but also the core territory of the Wei Famous Family, if they flood the vicinity of Lingzhou, next year half of the Wei Famous Family's affiliated tribes will have to eat grass.

Unless there is a desperate blow, when the time comes when you can completely ignore the future, a regime that only floods its own territory cannot be considered a normal regime.

It has been almost a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, so there is no lower limit at all.

They were storing water upstream, but they only wanted to contain part of the Chinese army, and threatened the Chinese army to storm Lingzhou as soon as possible, so as to create a chance to win.

……

On the seventh day of the first month of March, the Chinese army launched a general attack on Lingzhou.

From six-pound cavalry artillery to thirty-pound siege artillery, a total of 306 cannons were arrayed under Lingzhou City.

At 10:10 a.m., with a clarion call, all the cannons began to roar at the southern wall of Lingzhou.

More than 300 cannonballs with heart-pounding screams roared towards the Lingzhou city wall, and a few seconds later, the iron balls slammed into the rammed earth wall covered in masonry.

When the city wall was erected, the rubble flew wildly, and the smoke and dust instantly enveloped the entire city wall, and the screams of the Xia soldiers were endless, sometimes even suppressing the roar of artillery fire.

At first, there were still some heavy trebuchets in Lingzhou City that threw a few weak stone bullets to this side to fight back, but as the shelling continued, even these trebuchets could not fight back.

A well-eyed Chinese soldier saw with his own eyes that on the top of the smoke and dust flying in the air, the arm of a trebuchet flew like a light leaf.

For the Xia army, the defeat of the previous months showed a hidden bad consequence - since none of the defenders could escape, they were never able to sum up the experience of fighting the Chinese artillery, so that in such an important place as Lingzhou, they still fantasized about using the thickness of the city wall to resist artillery bombardment.

This turned the battle into a great tragedy for the Dang Xiang people, who were almost completely smashed by the Chinese army along with the first-line troops deployed on the city wall and the first reserve force that was close to the city wall.

The garrison of Lingzhou soon fell to a very dangerous point.

……

To the east of Lingzhou, there is a place called Lu Xiachuan.

Among the clan generals of the Great Xia Kingdom, the leader of the younger generation, Wei Mingrongli, raised his head and looked in the direction of Lingzhou.

Even though he was dozens of miles away, he could still hear a continuous stream of muffled figures like thunder.

There is no doubt that it was the sound of cannons.

"General, the Lingzhou side has begun." An Iron Harrier lieutenant approached and said cautiously, "Are we ......?"

"What's the hurry?" Wei Mingrong said nonchalantly: "Success or not, we only have one chance, since this is the case, it is better to wait for a better time." ”

"What's more, Lingzhou City has high walls and thick walls, and there are tens of thousands of troops of two privy envoys stationed there, so it won't be taken down by Hangou so quickly."

Wei Mingrongli has 2,000 iron harriers under his hands, all of which are the sanitation of the Great White High Country, which can be described as the elite of the elite.

But there were only 2,000 Iron Harriers ambushed outside Lingzhou City, and Wei Mingrongli was free to choose what target to attack - whether it was a sneak attack on the Chinese artillery, a flank attack on the Chinese army, or an attack on the Chinese army's transportation line, it was entirely up to him to choose.

The reason is very simple, at this time, the defenders of Lingzhou are the soldiers of Renduo and Ye Xiao's family.

Since the beginning of March, these big clans in the country have no order to withdraw their troops, forcing the monarch to change their strategy When the decisive battle of Xingling, Emperor Dade had to make a compromise and let the soldiers of Renduo and Ye Xiao come to guard Lingzhou, let the soldiers of no collector guard Jingzhou between Xingling, and the soldiers of Wei Mingjia guard Xingzhou.

At the same time, Emperor Dade also sent Wei Mingrong to lead the elite Su Zhi to ambush outside Lingzhou City-also surveillance, and the provincial Renduo and Ye Xiao fled to Xingqing Mansion with their troops, forcing the emperor to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army under the capital.

Fortunately, Renduo and Ye Xiao also knew that Lingzhou must not be lost, losing Lingzhou is equivalent to losing the gate of Xingqing Mansion, and it is completely impossible to keep the enemy out of the capital.

Therefore, Wei Mingrongli knew that those rebels who threatened the monarch would definitely not give up Lingzhou, but he was unwilling to step forward to help in the war now.

"We have to make them suffer a little, so that they can understand that Dabai Gaoguo is surnamed Wei!"

Wei Mingrong and Li thought viciously:

"When the Han dog is repulsed, Lao Tzu will clean you up one by one, see if you dare to coerce the king!"

……

Lingzhou City.

"Why hasn't that bastard come yet!?"

In the rumbling cannon, Ye Xiaoma howled in despair:

"Then why don't you attack the bastard!?"