The morale of the army is good, and Xu Shiyang's mood has relaxed a lot.

Next, no matter what the Tartars do, they have one more chance at most.

And squeezed by the new armies on both flanks, the breakthrough area they can choose is actually very small - it can only be his current position.

This situation concealed Xu Shiyang's weakness - he was not very good at judging the direction of the enemy's main attack.

It's much better now, since the enemy only has this one place where he can attack, then he just needs to concentrate more forces here.

Xu Shiyang now has dozens of pickers and traps left by his side at the end, about 500 sharp soldiers, 2,000 Qingzhou militiamen, hundreds of elite militia in the outer dock fort that are constantly gathering (mainly the sons and nephews of some dock fort owners and the family guests they usually support), in addition to more than 2,000 militiamen in the outer dock fort.

In terms of weapons, some new weapons that are very small in number and have not been deployed in the correct position have also been shipped, although Xu Shiyang does not plan to mass-produce these strange-shaped weapons, but in defensive battles, these things should also have a certain effect.

It doesn't have to be in vain, does it?

However, the artillery of the New Army, which attracted the most attention from Xu Shiyang, still failed to reach the front line, and after the first breastwork was broken, these cannons were deployed by Xu Shiyang to the east of the Yellow River, preparing to fight against the Tartars' crossing of the river.

As a result, he found that this arrangement was completely wrong, and the light artillery should still be deployed forward.

But it would be troublesome to transport them back from the east bank of the Yellow River, and the artillery commander sent back the information that it might take more than two hours for the artillery to arrive.

Xu Shiyang was speechless for a while, but this was his own mistake, and he couldn't blame others, so he could only ask the artillery to come as soon as possible.

In this kind of final battle, victory always belongs to the side with more reserves, and now Xu Shiyang feels that way.

He had ordered the militia that had been defending the fifth breastwork to come to support immediately, as well as the new army recruit battalion troops deployed on the east bank of the Yellow River.

In the rear of the Qingzhou Army, Xu Muhe, the envoy of Jiedu, ordered a general mobilization throughout the province as early as a few days ago - all men and women between the ages of 14 and 60 who are still in the rear are men and women!

Coupled with the 100,000 men and women who were responsible for building the Yellow River \\ Canal defense line and are now resting, Xu Muhe is frantically trying to raise an army with a total number of more than 200,000!

He probably wanted to direct this rabble to make a final fight against the Tartars when they broke through the Yellow River defense line.

Of course, Xu Muhe would not have this opportunity, and he would not even be able to organize this army before the end of this war.

However, the figure of 200,000 is very amazing after all, Xu Shiyang ordered the whole army to inform the whole army of the news, saying that there are 200,000 reinforcements on the way to the front line, as long as everyone resists this last time, the next thing is just to pick the fruits of victory.

This is not the truth, but what the front-line soldiers need at this time is not the truth, what they need is the confidence to persevere to the end.

This news can give them that confidence.

……

Just as the two sides were desperately gathering the last of their strength, night came.

A large number of elite Jin troops took advantage of the moonlight to enter the starting position, and this force was dominated by Wanyan Xianye's personal troops, and other most elite armor soldiers under Bo Jilie also joined them.

Wan Yan Zongbi announced to these people that if they could break through the defense line today, the masters promised not to hold Wan Yan Xian responsible for his death.

But if they can't win, then they can all die on the Qingzhou position.

During the day, this daredevil-like force was given elaborate and ample food and a full day of rest.

They bear the final expectations of the Jin army for victory.

In the last period before the start of the general attack, Wanyan Zongbi personally arrived at the front line, and he once again shouted to the breastwork:

"Xu Shiyang, are you still there? I'm Wanyan Zongbi! ”

"Hehe, you really haven't left yet." Xu Shiyang replied with a loudspeaker: "Don't give up yet, right?" Sure enough, it's a pack of wolves! If I don't slaughter you all, you'll be at my door forever! ”

"Xu Shiyang, it's useless to say this now." Wanyan Zongbi hid in the trench and said loudly: "You should also understand that it is not known who will kill the deer now!" Maybe tomorrow morning, Ben Shuai will be able to get your head! ”

"Well, do you want to think about it? As long as you make peace with Ben Shuai, you will not be in this danger! And this handsome man guarantees that you will be crowned king in Qi Province! Jin Qi can form a brotherly alliance! In the future, if you are willing, you can join forces with Ben Shuai to attack Jiangnan, and the population and land wealth you get can be divided in half! ”

Wanyan Zongbi began to make false and empty promises.

Of course, he knew that persuasion was useless, but he came anyway.

The reason is very simple, first, today's so-called night attack can only be confined to a section of the chest wall a few hundred meters long, and there is no suddenness at all, so he needs to personally come forward to do some cover.

Second, he wanted to determine if Xu Shiyang was still behind this chest wall.

All of them agreed that if they could kill him, they would have a chance to win this time.

Now all his goals have been achieved.

"Wanyan Zongbi, listen, I am a Chinese nobleman, how can I call you a barbarian? If you are smart, surrender now, if you can take the head of the chief Wanyan Wu begging, you will be able to surround your life! ”

Xu Shiyang was still shouting behind the breastwork opposite:

"By the way, tell the robbers who are following you! If you don't surrender now, when the general's army goes on an expedition to Liaodong, you will all die without a place to be buried! ”

"Hmph, hubris." Wanyan Zongbi sneered.

This Jurchen Bo waved his hand violently and coldly ordered:

"Go kill him!"

With his order, a desolate conch horn suddenly sounded in the darkness, and countless armored soldiers poured out of the darkness, howling and rushing towards the Qingzhou Army position ten meters away through several straight communication trenches aimed at the chest wall!

"Hahaha!" Xu Shiyang was not surprised, he took a loudspeaker and laughed wildly at the enemy soldiers surging in the dark: "A thief is a thief!" Even if you are called a lonely widow, you are just a monkey! Sure enough, there is no credibility! ”

"You've come just in time! See how Ben kills you all! ”

Rumble!

As he spoke, a strange cannon that had long been aimed at the exit of the communication trench fired the first shot of the decisive battle.

This is a "new weapon" designed by the Qingzhou No. 2 Arsenal of which Dai Zi is the director of the factory - in fact, it is a thick and short iron pipe without a gun carriage, so the total weight is very light, and it is very easy to mobilize.

The wall of this cannon is frighteningly thin, but the caliber is frighteningly large, so no one dares to fire solid shells with this "gun" at all, but there is no problem in firing shotguns with half-filled gunpowder.

And this cannon can fire shotguns weighing more than 60 pounds at one time!

It was only because of the amount of charge that the range of this gun was much shorter than that of a real field gun, and it could only be fired within the range of the heavy arrows of the Tartars.

At the end of the day, it's essentially a wooden cannon made of metal......

As a result, this gun was not mass-produced, and only two were trial-produced in the arsenal, one of which had already been blown up during live-fire training.

The only remaining gate was equipped to the Qingzhou militia and used in this battle.