As soon as these words came out, the generals were in an uproar, and they couldn't calm down, and for a while, the discussion started again.

Wan Yanxi raised his eyebrows, swept his eyes, and everyone was silent.

"Are the canals and ice walls a dozen miles north different from those outside the camp?"

"Returning to the handsome, there is no difference. There was a thick layer of ice on the wall, shining, and the ice near the river bank was also broken, and the Song army would stir it in the water with weapons. The scout returned.

"Have you ever reached the end of the canal? How's the end? Wan Yan Xi asked again.

"Others are still probing."

"What else did you find?"

"Ten miles to the north, the Song army seems intent on building camps near the riverbank, and according to small observations, the Song army is preparing in at least two places."

"Anything else?"

"That's all the little ones do."

"Go down, keep an eye on the other side, and keep exploring."

After Yan Xi finished speaking, the scout quickly left.

This is the case more than ten miles away in the north, and needless to say, it should be the same in the south all the way to the vicinity of Matou Village.

What did Song Jun want to do with such a big formation?

"What are the plans of the Song army to cut the entire canal ice and build an ice wall on the riverbank? Everyone has their own opinions. Wan Yanxi is asking questions to the generals.

The generals were stunned, how did they know Song Jun's intentions? They are not Song Jun.

But you can't say this to the generalissimo, and you can't all be as silent as a stuffy gourd.

Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere in the camp suddenly became awkward.

After a while, someone finally opened his mouth to break the awkward silence: "Dashuai, the last general thinks that Song Jin may want to trap us on the east bank of the canal with the broken ice and the ice wall built on the bank of the river, and to the east of us is a deep and wide Chaobai River, this place is to put it bluntly, if you want to go back to Yanjing, you can only go south to the Xianghe River without taking the canal, and yesterday we drove the Song army in the transportation camp to the south, this kind of weather to enter the Xianghe River, it is too difficult for us now." Therefore, the last general suspected that the Song army was probably planning to trap our 40,000 troops here by breaking the ice and building an ice wall on the opposite bank. ”

"You're talking nonsense. A mere canal, not as deep as the chest, and if we really want to cross the river, can they trap us with the sparse amount of people they row and a half-man-high ice wall? When it's really time to die, will you still be afraid that the river will wet your clothes? Immediately, the general refuted.

As soon as the general's rebuttal fell, another general continued: "Yes, when it's really fatal, don't talk about chest-deep water, even if it's neck-length water, it can't stop people." In addition, the Song army was scattered on the riverbank, and there were only thirty or forty people stationed on the ten-zhang long riverbank, that is to say, the Song army stationed on the one-mile-long riverbank was only five or six hundred people at most, and they were completely scattered. It is impossible for the Song army to trap us here completely, as long as we want to leave and pay some price, we can leave immediately. ”

"Even so, if the soldiers really had to wade through the water and cross the river, they would be able to get by, but what would they do after they passed? Do you run or fight with the Song army on the other side of the river? Do you know that they have other reinforcements besides the garrison on the banks of the river? Even if there were no reinforcements from them, would the soldiers still be able to fight after wading through the water? On such a cold day, if you pour a little water, it will freeze, and the soldiers can still fight when they come out of the river? Can you still run? The others retorted, apparently agreeing with the first to speak.

"There are Song troops on the other side, no matter how many of them there are, wading across the river is not a good way. Didn't you just see that the clothes and hair of the soldiers who came up from the river were frozen, and how far was it from the river bank to the camp? When the weather puts the soldiers in the water, it sends them to their deaths. I have a proposal, it's so cold, and it's snowing, we might as well just stay in the camp, but at the same time, exclude some small troops to go to the river bank to harass the Song army, so that they dare not leave, dare not rest, harass during the day, and harass at night, I don't believe that they are made of iron and wood, and in a few days, they will either freeze to death or die of exhaustion. What do you think? "Countering other opinions, another general expressed his thoughts.

"It's not a bad idea to wait for this kind of weather, they can stay up during the day, but not necessarily at night, stay up for a day, stay up all night, if you want to stay up for three days or three nights, I'm afraid they will have to freeze to death." However, sitting and waiting in the camp will not be able to personally control the battle situation after all, in my opinion, we might as well hurry south, defeat the Song army retreating south, seize the bridge near Matou Village, and then cross the river to the north and recapture the camp! Immediately, a general made a new proposal.

"It's better to take the bridge, since there is only one bridge in the entire canal, the Song army must be watching it very closely, and now that they have lost the transportation battalion, it is likely that they are afraid that we will pursue it south, and the bridge has been destroyed." The suggestion to go south to seize the bridge was quickly refuted.

"Since we can't go to Matou Village, can we go to Xianghe? The wall of Xianghe is not high, we have 40,000 troops, and it is still possible to break through Xianghe. "New proposals were made quickly.

"If there are only five or six thousand garrisons in the city, it is okay, and now that the Song army has fled south, it is very likely that one or two thousand people have entered the Xianghe, and we have nothing, what can we do to attack the city? I don't think it's a good way to go to Xianghe. ”

"And what do you want?"

"I thought ......"

In the argument of each other, they could still grasp the issue at the beginning and discuss how the army should deal with the current situation, but as the discussion became longer and longer, they gradually began to deviate from the topic that Yan Xi was giving them.

"Alright, quiet." Wan Yanxi was speaking out in time, and the generals shut up one after another.

"I just listened to everyone's opinions and suggestions on Song Jun, at present, I can't say who is completely right, and we can't say who is wrong, after all, Song Jun came suddenly, and we don't know their true intentions at all. In this way, we will divide our troops into several routes, and first probe for news before making a decision. First of all, it is necessary to send people to attack and harass them on the other side, whether it is day or midnight, and they must not be given the slightest opportunity to relax, and they can attack at will on the canal forty or fifty miles long, and do not let them find the law. In addition, we sent people with good water character to cross the Chaobai River, inquire about the news of the Chaobai River camp, go back to the other side to find out the news of the Song army, and at the same time report our current situation and the situation of the surrounding Song army back to Yanjing. Also, whether it is in the direction of Xianghe or Matou Village in the south, they can't give up their attempts to attack, they can drive them as far as they can, if they can take the bridge in Matou Village, of course, it's the best, if they can't take it, it doesn't matter, in short, they can't let the Song army in the south be stable. ”

Wan Yanxi finished his thoughts, and the generals agreed one after another.

At present, there is indeed no better way than to attack from all sides and find out the news.

Because after taking the transportation camp, in the face of the Song army that suddenly appeared on the other side, they suddenly lost the ability to obtain the intelligence of the Song army, they were like an isolated island, isolated from the world, and could not get any news from the outside world, but the Song army knew them very well, which was a very disturbing thing.

After Yan Xizheng's order was issued, the Jin army in the transportation camp quickly took action.

A part of the Jin army launched a bow and crossbow attack on the Song army along the canal in small teams to prevent the Song army from coming outside the snow wall to stir up the river and push the ice floes.

A group of selected Jin soldiers quickly rushed to the Chaobai River in the east, and they had the important task of swimming naked across the Chaobai River in the bitter winter of the cold wind with extraordinary courage, transporting war reports and finding out news.

Two other Jin armies with several thousand men each went south, one to the direction of Xianghe and the other to Matou Village.

The Jin army launched an operation, and the soldiers of the Song army on the other side did not dare to slack off in the slightest, let alone leave the snow wall post without permission.

Although they did not dare to leave their posts, after the ice broke and thousands of Jin troops fell into the water, the soldiers of the Song army who were sticking to the bank of the river had no fear in their hearts, because they knew that the river in front of them was enough to block the footsteps of the Jin army, and the snow wall in front of them ensured that they were not attacked by the Jin army's bows and crossbows.

The initial suspicion of digging holes, breaking ice, and building walls of snow has long since vanished, and has been replaced by confidence in victory.

Yang Congyi, as the commander-in-chief, did not return to the camp immediately after the first attack of the Jin army was frustrated, but took the guards all the way north to visit the ordinary soldiers and generals who were sticking to the front line.

The soldiers were starving and freezing in the cold wind, and although the commander did not have to be like them, he could not return to the camp to keep warm, ignoring the front-line soldiers, after all, this defense did not know how many days it would take.

The soldiers and junior officers were braved by the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition, Yang Congyi, who came to visit them in person, and was moved to almost tears, this was the first time in their lives that many of them had such close contact with important ministers of the court, and it was the first time that they saw the heroes they had admired for a long time within a zhang.

Yang Congyi has been famous all over the world since the Saponaria Forest killed Gao Jingshan and several water battles in Hezhou, Guazhoudu, and Zhenjiang, plus the later Northern Expedition, his reputation is very loud in the Song Dynasty and among the people, including in the Jin Kingdom.

Ordinary soldiers and low-level officers in the Great Song Dynasty have long regarded him as their life goal or idol, and today they can see the hero they have admired for a long time at close range, and no one is not excited.

Yang Congyi's arrival made the two soldiers who were alone behind a snow wall feel extraordinary encouragement and warmth, the soldiers' eyes became fiery and determined, and their bodies seemed to begin to emit a kind of fiery passion, as if to disperse the cold wind and melt the ice and snow.

Along the riverbank, patrolling all the way, waving to the soldiers who were sticking to the front line from time to time, and even saying that they cared about whether they were hungry or cold.

These simple little things are incomparably caring and inspiring in the eyes of ordinary soldiers and junior officers.

At this moment, they just wanted to hand over their lives to Yang Congyi, the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition in front of them.