On this day, on the twelfth day of the siege of Yin Yangcheng, an urgent military intelligence flew directly to the capital of Xianguo, Qiling, and the news reached the hands of Jiang Hai, the king of Xian, who summoned Prime Minister Gongsun Yue overnight to discuss the battle situation in Jiangdong:

"Prime Minister Gongsun, the metropolitan governor Zhao Xun sent an urgent military situation, all the land east of the river was lost, and now only Yin Yangcheng is still in the hands of our army, and the widow thinks that the army should be sent to respond quickly."

Gongsun Yue took Zhao Xun's handwriting, and after reading it, he asked:

"My lord, where did this letter come from!"

"It is a quartermaster order under Zhao Xun, and it has been ascertained."

"And where is this man?"

"It's still in Nanling, and it will take four or five days to reach Chenling."

"At present, the Jin army blockaded the river very strictly, and our army has sent people across the river many times, but there is no news. Now if Zhao Xun is still holding on to Yin Yangcheng, and more than ten days have passed, no one knows how Yin Yangcheng has fallen, so how Zhao Xun spread the news. ”

"According to the report from the border pass, the urgent military situation is that the Zhi army captured my Zhao Xun military needs to be repatriated to our army, and the widow thinks that the Zhi army does not want the Jin army to occupy the land east of my Jiangdong, so the military situation is handed over to our army."

"But if it is designed by the Zhi army, our army mobilizes the army to cross the river at this time, wouldn't it open the door by itself, so that the Zhi country will invade the land west of our Jiangxi."

Gongsun Yue believed that if he sent troops to rescue Zhao Xun at this time, the Zhi army would take advantage of the situation and raise troops to attack the land of Jiangxi in Xianguo, and Xianguo would be in danger of losing the country, which was contrary to Bailiyan's judgment.

Bai Liyan (i.e. Wei Xian) judged that the Zhi army was unable to go north to invade Xianguo, because the life of the common people of Xianguo was more difficult than that of Zhiguo, and it would be of no benefit to Zhiguo to take over the mess of Xianguo now. Therefore, Zhiguo's strategy is to let Xianguo raise troops to the east, and Zhiguo will sit and wait for the Jin army and the Xian army to fight to the death, so that he can not only win a good reputation, but also watch the Jin army and the Xian army consume each other, why not.

Now Gongsun Yue tried his best to persuade Jiang Hai, the king of Xian, to wait a little longer, and then compete with the Jin army when he had gathered enough strength.

So this urgent military situation was lost to the sea and did not reply, and Ding Su was summoned to the palace many days later, and finally ended up in prison to be questioned.

I'm afraid that Bailiyan herself would never have thought that there was an embroidered prime minister sitting on top of the court thousands of miles away, and he almost delayed his life.

The Jin army besieged for more than a month, after the first ten days of "artillery bombardment", launched four large-scale sieges in a row, all failed to capture Yin Yangcheng, seeing that there was no life between the ruins and broken walls, Han He was never able to capture Yin Yangcheng.

On this day, Han He went to the wounded camp to inspect:

"The medical officer ordered whether the wounded soldier had been properly settled."

"General Hui Han, most of the crippled soldiers have been transferred back to the rear, and the rest of the remaining ones can fight again."

"Well, the old man understands. When the reinforcements arrive tomorrow, when Yin Yangcheng is captured, the blood of our soldiers will never be shed in vain. ”

Since the siege of the city, Yin Yang attacked and killed for a month, and the Jin army suffered more than 47,800 casualties, especially the first tentative attack and night attack before the artillery bombardment, the Jin army killed more than 7,000 people and wounded more than 4,000, accounting for a quarter.

After that, a series of sieges were carried out, and they had already entered the city, but who knew that Bailiyan dug a big pit in Yin Yangcheng, and finally the Jin army that attacked Yin Yangcheng fell into the pit, and then the boiling water poured down with oil, and countless dead and wounded, and then it was buried by mud and stones, and the tragic situation was outrageous.

However, the Xian army was not much better, and after a continuous battle for more than a month, the defenders were still less than 1,005 people standing, and more than 3,000 were lightly and seriously wounded. According to Bailiyan's instructions, the bodies of the victims were cremated at first, but because there were too many corpses of the two armies, the wood diesel grease was stretched, and it was too late to burn, so it could only be done simply, and some of them were buried outside the city, and some of them floated away along the river.

After Han He inspected the wounded camp, he returned to the Chinese army's tent, and Wang Shuo had already arrived:

"General Wang Shuo, why did you come back early."

"To tell the old general, the plague broke out in the north and has been transmitted to the east of the Xianguo River, and I rushed back in advance this time to discuss this matter with the general."

"Plague!"

Han He had previously asked Wang Shuo to urge grain, and Wang Shuo learned from the grain and straw officials that a plague had broken out along the northern and Xian kingdoms of the Jin Kingdom, resulting in the death of a large number of people and hard laborers, and the supply of grain and straw was delayed. When Wang Shuo heard the news, he had to return early to discuss the matter with Han He.

Han Hesi brewed for a long time, but still felt that the siege of the city was the best, only to capture Yin Yangcheng, and the war with Xianguo ended here, the two countries have since confronted each other across the river, and Xianguo can no longer be able to subdue the land of Jiangdong.

"The old man thinks that the battle of Yin Yang is within these three days, as long as you survive the three days, Yin Yang Cheng will be defeated, you and I must stay up for another three days, and then become a class teacher after three days."

"It's just that our army has repeatedly attacked the city by the Xian army, and the last time we saw the attack on the city, we were calculated and fell into the pit, hundreds of innocent people died tragically, and countless people were injured. This time, the Xian army was able to breathe, and if our army attacked the city again, the Xian army may still have a poisonous plan. ”

Wang Shuo was worried, and Han He said in a deep voice:

"Because of this, when the reinforcements arrived, after our army crossed the river, the bow and crossbow opened the way in the backing armor, and the battalion was steadily and steadily. Even if the Xian army has a poisonous plan, our tens of thousands of troops are overwhelming, and he can do nothing about the Xian army. ”

Attacking the city for months, causing Han He's 100,000 army to suffer casualties of less than 50,000, and the remaining more than 50,000 people were demoralized and exhausted, many of them fought for several days and nights, and when they withdrew, they were directly planted on the ground, and what was even more odious was that the Xian army repeatedly cheated, causing heavy losses to the Jin army, otherwise it would not have been possible to kill and wound 47,800 people.

In addition to digging pits in the city, Bailiyan also tossed offensive and defensive tools such as fire tongs spears, boiling water tanks, dragon tooth plates, and iron hoof nails.

The fire tongs spear is actually a spear, spear, hook and sickle to burn red with firewood, and then to provoke, slash, stab, because the lethality of cold weapons comes more from strength and thorns, so often a non-lethal part of a stab will not necessarily die, but a hot red weapon such a stab, poking in any part will cause ulceration and suppuration and blood infection, basically it is over, undoubtedly increasing the mortality rate.

The dragon tooth board is also called the wolf tooth pat, a bit like the sassal wood, the city defense equipment that appeared in the Northern and Southern Song periods, the dragon tooth plate is full of copper nails, the two ends are tied to the chain, the length of the chain is just two feet away from the ground, when the enemy attacks the city, the front is thrown outward, and it is two or three meters long, more than one foot wide The dragon tooth board is thrown down.

Due to the long width, the wolf tooth slap is limited by the length of the chain, resulting in the "swing" effect, when the chain length limit is reached, the wolf tooth slap begins to reverberate, at this time most of the soldiers besieging the city are under the city, no matter what weapons and armor they are holding, such a big wolf tooth slap is smashed or swept away, it is a large piece of down, and extremely tragic.

The iron hoof nail is the dragon's tooth plate hanging on the city wall, as long as you go to the city, you must have the iron hoof nail. When the time comes, you won't even have a place to put your feet.

To say that the most lacking is the boiling water tank, because the east city wall is particularly badly damaged, Bailiyan had to temporarily build an urn city. The so-called urn city is actually to block the city gate, not the real sense of the urn city.

It's just that after piling up clay, clay, and clay, it makes a huge vessel, and then digging holes in the ground, burning firewood, putting water in the vessel, releasing a large amount of water, and finally boiling water in the ground.

When the Jin army attacked the city, especially the siege gate, the water was also boiled at this time, and as soon as the city gate was broken, more than ten tons of boiling water poured down, and the Jin army blocking the gate was miserable.

In addition, there are many new things that Han He and Wang Shuo have never seen at all, let alone expected. To say that Bailiyan was also forced to have no choice, otherwise he couldn't use inhumane means.

Just when Han He and Wang Shuo were pondering how to capture Yin Yangcheng, Zhao Xun stood among the ruins and broken walls with a sad brow, beside him was Bai Liyan, who had been cut off with two swords on his back, and his hand was still hanging on his neck with a bandage.

Ding Su has been sending the letter for more than a month, and so far there has not been even a shadow of news from the Xianjun army, which makes Zhao Xun feel that the story depicted by Bai Liyan that can be held for at least half a year is a bit big.

"Wei Xian, so far, there is not much left of our army, if the Xian army does not cross the river again, my army may be wiped out."

"Unless Ding Su is captured and the messenger is killed, I can't figure out why King Xian didn't send reinforcements. In terms of time, the navy should have arrived many days ago, and even if it didn't go ashore, there should be traces of the navy, which is inconceivable. ”

It is estimated that Bailiyan would never have dreamed that the emergency military situation was delivered, but after letting Xiangguo Gongsun Yue "point out the maze", the emergency military situation will sink into the sea.

If the Xianguo Navy arrived nearby a few days ago, it would not have been so miserable as today, Yin Yangcheng said that there were still two or three thousand living forces, and now there are less than 1,500 people, and there is no possibility of holding on at all.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan said again:

"General Zhao, there is no skill in the bottom. The available means have been exhausted, presumably the Jin army suffered a lot of casualties, otherwise it would not have been attacked for three consecutive days. ”

"I'm afraid that Han He is waiting for reinforcements, and as soon as the reinforcements arrive, it will be the time to break the city."

"In this case, how our army will act, please ask General Zhao to decide."

"For today's plan, it is surrounded on three sides, one side faces the river, if you don't swim across the river, you can only die to serve the country. You work for the general, but you are from the country, and when the Jin army breaks the city, you and your fellow villagers will flee for their lives. ”

“……”

Baili Yan didn't speak, first, he just thought so, there was no need for him to follow the funeral. The second is that the situation has developed to this point, and he also miscalculated, what else can he say. This is tens of thousands of lives, and with a crooked mouth, so many people died.

Of course, using the Xian army to kill so many people in the Jin army can be regarded as holding the revenge of the year and earning enough money.

After dark, thirty-seven more people died in the city, all of them from serious injuries, infections, and bleeding shock. Since there was really no way to bury it outside the city, the corpse could only be washed away from the west gate by the river water.

At noon the next day, the Jin reinforcements marched to the outside of Yin Yang City overnight, Han He originally planned to attack the city directly, but remembering that the soldiers were tired of the forced march overnight, he decided to postpone the siege and change it to a night siege. For this reason, Han He ordered people to pile up firewood piles by the Fu River, preparing for night battles to illuminate the battlefield.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and the whole number of these reinforcements should be 20,000, but it is only 18,621.

So Han He summoned Wei Han, the governor of the reinforcements, and asked:

"Wei Han, why is there only 18,621 reinforcements, and where are the remaining 1,300 people?"

"General Han Rongyu, our army marched continuously for ten days under the stars and nights, and many soldiers fell ill on the way, so there were only 18,621 people."

"There can be so many sicknesses!"

Han He questioned, and Wei Han explained:

"The last general also felt strange, there was nothing abnormal before, especially in the last two days, more than 800 people fell ill one after another, most of them were diarrhea, vomiting and weakness, so they could not march, so they had to be transferred to other places to recuperate."

That is, the 20,000 people brought by the Jin general Wei Han, more than 1,300 people fell ill on the way, but Wei Han didn't know that many of these sick soldiers died the day after he left.