In the ice smashing fun, the sky gradually brightened.

The ice on the west bank of the canal was smashed for nearly forty miles, and the soldiers of the Northern Expedition lined up on the riverbank, standing neatly and neatly, stirring the river in front of them with knives and guns from time to time.

If you want to prevent the Jin army from escaping back to Yanjing City, smashing the ice of the canal is only the first step, the canal is about fifty miles long, and relying on 30,000 soldiers alone to hold the fifty miles of broken ice along the river, the troops are too scattered to prevent the Jin army from escaping, so according to Yang Congyi's plan, they will build a wall along the canal within two days, completely trapping the 40,000 Jin army in the wilderness between the canal and the Chaobai River.

Therefore, after learning that the ice of the Fifty-Mile Canal had been dug up and smashed, Yang Congyi immediately issued a new order to all the troops: within an hour, use snow and wild grass as materials to build a two-foot-thick and half-man-high snow wall on the bank of the canal, and then pour it with river water, leaving a five-foot gap between each wall!

When the armies received the order, they immediately organized the officers and men stationed on the banks of the river to act quickly.

It had been snowing heavily for a few days, and the snow on the ground was already two or three inches thick, and it was as easy as building a snowman with snow to build a wall.

Yang Congyi asked for five feet of space between each snow wall, and the distance between the soldiers who were originally stationed on the river bank was only four feet, which meant that every two warriors only needed to cooperate to build a snow wall three feet long, two feet wide, and half a person high between the two.

At this time, it was just dawn, and in the transportation camp on the other side of the canal, the Jin army, which had been celebrating for most of the night, had not yet gotten up.

Although they did not continue to pursue the Song army yesterday because it was getting late, and failed to achieve more results, they drove the Song army out of 30 miles away and into the vast wilderness as expected before the war, and chased the Song army all the way south, not daring to turn back and fight.

Song Jun ran away, and that was enough.

The Jin army originally did not want to annihilate the Song army in the transportation camp, but only wanted to drive the Song army out of the camp, force them to retreat, and completely smash the Song army's attempt to encircle Yanjing City.

The capture of the Tongyun camp indicates that the war initiated by the Song army has been crushed by their own hands, and it can be said that they have won this war!

Therefore, the whole Jin army has every reason to celebrate, and it is completely capable of celebrating!

In addition, the Song army was driven out of the barracks, and it was difficult to escape all the way, and the morale was greatly damaged, and the Song army was inferior to the Jin army, so it did not have the ability to quickly launch a counterattack and recapture the transportation battalion.

Even so, the Jin army still set up a sentry dozens of miles south of the transportation camp, in case the Song army was not afraid of death and risked their lives to attack the camp in the middle of the night.

The Jin army thought that they had won, and what was it to sleep lazily in the stable and warm transportation camp?

As the sky was bright and there was no interference from the Jin army on the other side, 30,000 soldiers of the Song army worked together, and it took less than half an hour to pile up the snow wall that they were responsible for building, and filled the river water with the water cylinder and water bag they carried with them, and poured it on the snow wall.

The river seeped into the walls of snow and soon condensed into ice.

It didn't take long for the wall of snow to glow and cover with a smooth coat of ice as the river poured more and more water.

What the snow wall is used for, at the beginning of the snow, most people still don't understand very well, and when the snow wall is basically completed, the role of the snow wall will be known to everyone.

In addition to defending against the enemy, the snow wall is more important to protect the lives of the Song army!

As the canal ice breaks, the Jin army has limited ways to attack the snow wall, and the most commonly used is bows and arrows.

Therefore, without waiting for the Jin army to notice the changes on the other side of the canal and attack them with bows and arrows, the Song soldiers used their bows and crossbows to test whether the snow wall they built could block the sharp arrows and protect themselves from being shot through by bows and arrows.

After inspecting it for themselves, almost all the soldiers rushed to collect snow in the wilderness behind them, thickening and raising their snow walls to improve their defensive capabilities, because they knew that the only thing that could accompany them and protect their lives from the enemy's bows and arrows was the snow wall in front of them.

Yang Congyi saw all this, he was very pleased, and at the same time he was a little self-blaming.

Originally, according to the plan, the heightening and reinforcement of the snow wall would continue to be carried out in the next few days, and continuous improvement would be made, but Yang Congyi ignored the autonomy of the majority of ordinary soldiers, regarded them as soldiers who simply carried out orders, and forgot that they were also people who could think, and even more forgot human instincts.

It seems that if you stay in a high position for a long time and do not communicate with ordinary soldiers and civilians, you will eventually ignore their individual existence and feelings.

Looking at the Great Song soldiers who were busy reinforcing and thickening the snow wall, Yang Congyi suddenly remembered that he was injured by bandits in Tianzhu Mountain, and was rescued by Qingchen and her master after jumping into the rolling torrent, and had a Q&A debate with Daochang Zheng during the recuperation period.

At that time, he didn't want to be a mustard, and he hated the people at the bottom for treating the people at the bottom as a mustard, and then vowed to ascend to a high position and reverse the fate of the people in the world.

But so many years have passed, he himself has already become a high-powered minister, launching wars again and again, in order to win the war against Jin, I don't know how many soldiers have died on the battlefield, and how many people have been ruined, and he and Zhao Yan, as well as the vast majority of ministers in the court, only see victory, and only give awards, rewards and promotions, no one sees how difficult and difficult the grassroots soldiers and low-level people are, struggling to survive.

He had long forgotten the grand wish he had made in Tianzhu Mountain thirty years ago.

Looking at the nervous, excited and busy soldiers, Yang Congyi seemed to have woken up, and suddenly an emotion arose from the bottom of his heart, he wanted to end the war immediately, because at this moment, he hated war more than ever.

"Commander, the walls have been repaired, and even the guns can't be stabbed! If the Jin army dares to come, let them see for themselves how they died. Seeing that Yang Congyi was coming to inspect, the former military commander quickly stepped forward to report the situation of repairing the wall.

Yang Congyi was awakened by the words of the former military commander, and looking at the excitement and confidence on the other party's face, he instantly collected his emotions and simply replied: "Okay, hold the canal, hold the snow wall, this battle will be won!" ”

"Yes, Marshal." The former military commander responded simply, then turned his head to look at the other side of the canal, and said: "The fools on the other side are still sleeping, and they don't know that they are all dying, as long as the transportation battalion does not make mistakes in this battle, they will definitely be able to annihilate them all." ”

"Don't talk too much, there are 40,000 people on the other side, but they are not recruits and miscellaneous soldiers, it really pushes them into a hurry, I can't tell how they will fight back. Our troops are limited, and we have to defend the fifty-mile canal, no matter day or night, we can't relax for a moment, and in this ice and snow, we are afraid that the soldiers will not be able to hold on. Mobilize all the soldiers to think of a way, and let the soldiers take turns to return to the camp to eat a hot meal and nourish their spirits when they can hold the canal and prevent the Jin army from crossing the river. Yang Congyi was not as excited as the other party, but there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.

"Yes, it will be arranged in due course." The former military command is full of responses.

He knows exactly how hard the soldiers are, because whether it is digging holes and smashing ice, or piling snow to build walls, he has personally participated, and now his hands are still red, frozen, and hot, but he is willing to do this.

The shame of retreating from the camp in Haizi Village with Liu Yan before, he had to wash away it by winning the battle, and so did his brothers.

At the same time, he also understands that only by working together and sharing weal and woe, can the officers and men of the whole army twist into a rope, and the final victory of this battle can be achieved, the soldiers are not wooden people, they are living people who know the cold and warmth, they can hold on to the river bank for one hour, two hours, three hours, or even four hours, but they cannot hold on to three days and five days in the cold wind and snow, he believes that no one can stand it.

Therefore, Yang Congyi listened to the advice he gave him, and at the same time had a good impression and respect for Yang Congyi, he knew that their commander was not a person who took the lives of the soldiers and did not deserve them.

"The Jin army estimates that they will find us soon, go and organize a defense, and guard the canal." After Yang Congyi finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and walked towards the north with his personal guards.

After the commander of the front army raised his hand and saluted, he quickly returned to the river bank and gave orders to the battalions, ordering them to hold on no matter what, hold their positions, and wait for the enemy attack to be repulsed, and then take turns to return to the battalion to rest!

The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were still strengthening the snow wall in front of them and raising the defense level, not to mention, the Jin troops in the transportation camp finally woke up from their dreams one after another, opened their eyes and saw the unfamiliar barracks in front of them, and suddenly they didn't know where they were.

After some recollection, they suddenly understood that they had captured the Song army camp, and at this time they were in the Song army camp, and they couldn't help but feel very happy, and they couldn't help but stretch a few lazy waists, which was really comfortable.

"Get up! Get up! ”

The people who sat up shouted to the sleeping brothers who were sleeping in front of and behind, but they didn't move, no one opened their eyes, and no one got up.

Seeing that no one was paying attention in the barracks, the soldier suddenly shouted: "The Song army is here!" ”

This sound was like a talisman, and it instantly woke up dozens of soldiers.

As soon as the words fell, I saw them turn over and sit up directly, and then opened their eyes and looked around, with extremely nervous expressions on their faces.

"Hahaha......" Just as they were about to get off the ground in a dazed and frightened state, they heard unbridled laughter, and their heads quickly sobered up, realizing that they had been tricked.

"Sick!"

"Boring! Don't disturb Lao Tzu's sleep! ”

"It's itchy, looking for a fight, right?"

.......

The people who were tricked were unhappy and cursed, but none of them got up and did not move, because the people who played them had already run to the door, and they were tripped by the warm bed.

After scolding, they all lay down and continued to enjoy the warmth and tranquility after the victory.

Almost the same scene happened in many barracks in the general transport camp, and the people who were willing to leave the warm bedding and barracks were a minority after all, and for the vast majority of people, they would never choose to end early if they could enjoy a moment of warmth and tranquility.

At that time, in the entire transportation battalion, except for the troops and sentry posts on duty, there were only 1,000 soldiers who left the bed, and even few of the generals and officers of the various departments left their barracks and went out of the camp to inspect.

Because the Jin army in the entire transportation camp knew that they had won and that the Song army had fled south.

And the generalissimo also promised them to rest for two days first, and then attack the camp of the Song army in Chaobaihe, and today and tomorrow are their rest time.