Li Chongjin stood on the tall Yangzhou City Gate Tower, looking at the vertical and horizontal ravines around the Song army camp opposite, silent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Half a month ago, the Song army's camp suddenly retreated 300 steps back and set up camp again, completely getting rid of the attack range of its own catapults, which in Li Chongjin's view, was just a normal countermeasure.

But later Song Jun's behavior was really incomprehensible.

Li Chongjin joined the army in the early years of Zhou Guangshun, and it has been more than eight years, and there are countless large and small battle formations, and all the generals choose the battlefield, hoping that the battlefield terrain can be beneficial to their side.

It was the first time he had seen a general completely destroy the flat terrain around his camp, and this kind of brain-dead behavior was far beyond his understanding.

The trenches dug around the camp of the Song army ranged from wide and narrow to deep, arbitrarily to extreme, ranging from three feet to one zhang deep, and all the excavated soil was built on the side of the Song army's trench. The depth of the ditch and the height of the earthen wall are as high as two zhang, and such a simple maze-like earth city appears alive on the opposite side of Yangzhou City.

It is just that under such terrain, it is no longer possible to arrange troops, let alone form an army formation, or even organize an effective offensive.

"The new commander of the Song army is indeed Wen?" Li Chongjin asked Li Xin behind him.

"Returning to the Captain, it is indeed undoubted." Li Xin confirmed.

"This official has heard of his supreme record in burning Zezhou, is it this level?" Li Chongjin looked at the messy trenches and earthen walls around the Song army camp and said.

"In the battle of Zezhou, the Song army has a numerical advantage, but now the Song army is not superior, although this is the case, the Song army will lose the opportunity to attack our army, but if our army wants to go out of the city and fight with it, it is also very unfavorable to our army.

In the case that the battle array cannot be used, it can only be a chaotic battle, so that it is difficult to give full play to the numerical superiority of our army. Li Xin analyzed.

"What you said is not unreasonable, but by doing so, the Song army is tantamount to giving up the initiative to attack our army, is it possible that the Song army wants to confront our army for a long time?" Li Chongjin pondered.

"Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty has already been on the front line of Sizhou, since the emperor has already taken the imperial conquest in person, he will not give Wen the opportunity to confront us for a long time, and their attack may be launched soon." Li Xin said.

Since it is the emperor's personal conquest, it is impossible to delay the time indefinitely, generally only if it is certain that it will be victorious and will take a short war, the important ministers of the court will agree to the emperor to come to the battlefield in person, of course, there is another situation, that is, it is determined that the dynasty has reached the brink of peril, and there will be a royal conquest.

Li Chongjin snorted lightly and said: "It seems that he is another Zhao Kuo who talks on paper, and the official thought that he would be such a brilliant figure, and even did not hesitate to send troops to intercept and kill him, but he didn't expect that he was a timid person like a mouse." ”

Li Chongjin now seems to have heard that the tactics used by Wen are a sign of fear, shrinking himself in order to avoid a decisive battle.

"It was the incompetence of the lowly duty that led to the failure of the interception." Li Xin pleaded guilty.

"With Pan Mei's personal guards and hundreds of horses to answer, failure is inevitable, and you don't need to blame yourself." Li Chongjin comforted.

"Returning to the Taiwei, this interception failed, although the hundred horsemen led by Pan Mei played a great role, but the key is the team of students led by Wen, they have a weapon that can be thrown and exploded, a bit similar to the divine thunder we use, and they have a Zhuge repeater, which is a little different from our common Zhuge repeater, although the number of arrows fired at one time has decreased, but the power is stronger, and the arrow winding speed is faster.

An ordinary bow and arrow A soldier pulls the bow more than ten times, and the arm strength will be exhausted, but the Zhuge crossbow in their hands does not seem to have this kind of trouble, and they find that from the beginning to the end of the assassination, their arrows have not stopped, and the number of arrows fired more than thirty rounds is enough to show the extraordinary nature of this weapon.

If this weapon is popularized among the Song army, it will be very disadvantageous to us. Li Xin said.

"You don't need to worry about this, the Zhuge repeater has always been cumbersome to make, and the price is high, if the power is stronger than the general Zhuge repeater, the cost will undoubtedly be higher, which limits its popularity in the army." Li Chongjin chuckled.

"Taiwei, now the reinforcements led by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the army of Wen have formed a momentum of fighting horns and supporting each other, although the army of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, the first line of Chen Bing Sizhou, is still a hundred miles away from us, but if we go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with Wen, they will definitely lead the army to attack our army, do we have to continue to confront each other like this?" Li Xin wondered.

Li Chongjin sighed and said: "If you want to break the situation, you can only look forward to the appearance of third-party reinforcements, if Zhao Yuanlang's reinforcements appear, it will be when our army is defeated." You are sending an envoy to the Tang Kingdom, can the Lord of Li Guo intentionally send troops to help us? ”

"Please ask the captain to surrender, he is incompetent in his duties, and he failed to persuade Lord Li to send troops to help in the war." Li Xin knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty.

"This kind of result, this official is not surprised, how can a person in power who only knows poetry and romance have the ambition to swallow the world." Li Chongjin snorted.

"Captain, is our army going to sit still like this?" Li Xin said anxiously.

"As long as we stick to Yangzhou and are undefeated, there will be heroes in the world to echo, and this official does not believe that the Song Dynasty can carry on the war indefinitely. Now God helps me, hearing this pompous child, thinking that if you can't go out of the big camp and avoid fighting with our army, you can trap our army, which is really ignorant.

This official has never seen it, and he can trap the other party to death by besieging only one city gate. Li Chongjin said proudly.

If you want to win without a fight, you must at least surround the city on all sides, but the Song army is not strong enough and can only surround one side, which in Li Chongjin's view, is equivalent to no siege.

Since it is impossible to besiege the city, there will be no shortage of supplies in the city, and in this case, it will only be detrimental to the army that has come from afar to fight, and as long as the confrontation continues for a long time, retreating has become their only option.

Looking at the ravine wall in front of the Song army's camp again, Li Chongjin smiled contemptuously.

In his opinion, no matter how the war develops, the Song army has lost the ability to attack the city, and since it cannot attack the city, then its own side is already invincible.

.........

In the Sizhou military camp, Zhao Kuangyin, who was stationed here, was squeezing the military intelligence chapter in his hand.

The bruised hands showed how angry he was at the moment.

Wen Wen's first order to take over the Yangzhou marching camp was to retreat 300 steps back to re-camp.

It was this order that lost the advantage of suppressing the gates of Yangzhou.

For this reason, the imperial court reinforcements had to change the original deployment, and Chen Bing Sizhou was on the front line, hoping to form a corner with Wen and help each other.

But then when he heard the order, he was even more hateful, breaking all his advantages.

Under Wen's order, the Yangzhou marching battalion dug countless trenches on the spot, and built an earthen wall with the soil from the ditches, and built a city on the spot, which was a posture for a long-term battle.

"Your Majesty, why are you angry?" Wang Shenqi asked.

Zhao Kuangyin said solemnly: "If I had known that I would do this, I would definitely not appoint him as the commander of the army again." ”

After speaking, Zhao Kuangyin handed the military sentiment chapter to Wang Shenqi.

Wang Shenqi took the military intelligence chapter suspiciously, read it carefully, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching a few times, looked at Zhao Kuangyin with a gloomy face and said, "Your Majesty, this is really a bit of a joke." ”

Zhao Kuangyin said angrily: "What's more, it's just child's play, it's just wanton." ”

"Your Majesty can order the removal of Wen Yangzhou from the post of commander of the marching battalion." Wang Shenqi suggested.

Speaking of this, Zhao Kuangyin sighed and said: "I also want to immediately remove Wen from his post and investigate, but as an emperor, how can I break my promise." Before Wen Izukyo took office, I asked me to set up documents for him, and one of them was about trust. ”

"This....... But Your Majesty, if you let it go, once the army is defeated, it will not only affect the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, but also the danger of the imperial court. Wang Shenqi bowed his hand and said in a deep voice.

Zhao Kuangyin was in the camp tent, and after walking around a few times irritably, he said in a deep voice: "Since the matter has happened, it is useless to remove Wen, immediately send an order to Wen to attack Yangzhou within a limited time, it is impossible for the imperial court to confront the traitor for a long time, if Wen can't capture Yangzhou, although I have an appointment with him first, but I can't ignore it." ”

In order to maintain his majesty, the emperor will not easily withdraw even if it is a wrong order, and break his promise, which will be a devastating blow to the emperor's reputation.

can make an emperor repent of his promise, and he must also redeem the matter, which shows how absurd the military order issued by Wen has become. (To be continued.) )