On the forty-mile journey, Li Yiming's army led the army to walk very slowly, and the water potential of several rivers along the way was relatively gentle in autumn, which did not cause much trouble, but it took two days to fight and kill at the same time, and the army arrived in Daxingfu. （）

Daxingfu did not build a tall city wall, the original city wall was damaged in the previous wars, and the repairs could only be used, after Kublai Khan fixed the capital Yanjing, Daxingfu was also an important garrison city, and also put forward a plan to build a three-zhang high city wall.

However, Kublai Khan attached great importance to many palaces in the capital of Yuan, coupled with the river dredging presided over by Guo Shoujing, and the siege of the Grand Canal was very many, so he did not spare enough time and energy for several years to rebuild the city wall in Daxingfu.

Dozens of squads sent by Zhehu were almost all swept away by Li Yiming, and some of them were lucky enough to escape back to report the news, most of the squads were wiped out without a single survivor, and the soldiers lost more than 10,000 in the past two days.

The small group of troops sent to attack in the field did not cause too much trouble to the Song army, but Zhehu lost 10,000 people, which made him extremely hesitant and weak, but he couldn't show it, in that case, wouldn't the subordinates around him be even more backboneless.

However, he knew very well that from the north was a steady stream of troops to the capital of Yuan, Kublai Khan was rationally deploying troops, and Daxingfu was also an important link in the defense, once besieged by the Song army, there would inevitably be a large number of reinforcements to relieve the siege.

What he didn't expect was that when Li Yiming arrived at the boundary of Daxingfu, he didn't wait for a while, and immediately arrived at the city gate and set up a cannon, and when the Yuan army in the city didn't understand, he directly blew up the city gate of Nancheng.

This is the same trick used in Zhuozhou, first blocking the passage of the rapid movement of the Yuan army in the city, but the north of Daxing is the garrison of the Yuan army, and Li Yiming does not want to risk going deep and giving the enemy a chance to besiege.

In Zhao Tianyou's meat grinder plan, Daxing Mansion was a major battlefield in the early stage, and Li Mingyi's task was not to attack it, but to continue to put pressure on the defenders in the city and ask them to ask for support from Yuan Dadu.

The cannon was the most effective intimidation, blowing down the city gate and sweeping the city tower, giving the Yuan army in the city the impression that the Song army outside the city could rush in at any time, and losing the obstruction of the city wall would make the defense more difficult.

Zhehu and Zhuozhou took the same method, quickly mobilized hard laborers, cleaned up the bricks and stones in the southern city, selected the construction secretly at night, relied on manpower to clean the southern city gate, and built a new high wall.

However, there is a difference, Zhehu's mind is still relatively calm, and after the failure of the sporadic squad raid, he did not give up, because the high wall is firmly under the threat of artillery, and it may be broken by the Song army at any time, which is definitely not the best way to defend.

Just when Li Mingyi was taking a foothold in Nancheng and dividing his troops to march towards the West City Gate, Zhehu sent a large group of men and horses out of the city to engage the Song army on the plain outside the West City, and even repelled the Song army's attack twice in succession.

The terrain outside the west gate of Daxingfu is flat, there are only a few wild woods, and there are not even a higher mound and steep slopes, and there are a few small rivers, although they can be crossed by horseback, but they seriously affect the mobility of the Song artillery.

After fighting twice, the losses of the Yuan army were greater, but the Song army was not without injuries, and after the two battles, 2,000 cavalry also died on the battlefield, which quickly made Li Mingyi angry.

"Tonight, the firearms battalion shelled Daxing Mansion, adjusted the firing range, and covered the barracks and yamen garrisons in the city with shells, so as to avenge the comrades who died during the day today!"

The soldiers of the firearms battalion who led the order to go were elated, this was the first time that the Song army carried out strategic bombing, and when the two armies were fighting before, the artillery attack was basically the living force on the city wall, and this was the first time for the invisible target in the city.

The reason why the shelling was held at night was that it was more convenient for the observer to determine the position of the impact point, and to adjust the angle and orientation as much as possible so that there would not be too much deviation. Of course, at this time, it is impossible to have too accurate fixed-point strikes, relying on covering bombardment in general directions, and using the number of guns fired to make up for the lack of accuracy.

Li Yiming dared to do this, relying on the map of the neighborhoods in Daxingfu City, which was obtained from the secret room in the Zhuozhou Military Mansion, and he obtained it before the Yuan army had time to destroy it. After getting his hands on it, he was very happy, this kind of strategic bombardment of the enemy's inner city had been discussed among the students before, but the lack of a location map to rely on, it was very easy to accidentally injure the ordinary people in the city.

If you change to the traditional Song army commander, you may not care much about the accidental bombing and damage to ordinary residents, as long as you can bomb the enemy's mansion and kill many poor people in the city, I am afraid you will think that it is worth doing.

However, in Li Yiming's study of martial arts, Zhao Tianyou spread to them that the Chinese Han nationality in the world is one family, and ordinary people are the same as their relatives and parents at home, even the old and young women and children of the enemy cannot be harmed, these views and ideas are repeated every day, and they have been deeply written in their heads.

Zhao Tianyou brought the bottom line of implementation in modern warfare to the martial arts hall of the Song Dynasty, and continued to instill this spirit and concept in them, but not for the present, after this batch of students graduated, they would take the initiative to protect the lives of the weak in the war.

He is for the future, to run this concept through the future, no matter how many decades or even hundreds of years have passed, there is no Zhao Tianyou, there is no Great Song Dynasty, and this concept of combat can be long-standing and become a rule that both warring sides abide by, this is what he wants.

At the same time, he is also more aware of the cruelty of ancient warfare, the hostile countries have hated each other for generations, and will not distinguish between soldiers and civilians, as long as there is an opportunity, genocide will be carried out all the time.

But a relatively high social civilization will definitely come, if Zhao Tianyou spreads it earlier, and learns this kind of rules on the battlefield, it will be implemented and observed earlier, then there will be more civilians who will be spared the devastation of war.

When night came, the Song army erected two tall towers outside the Daxing Mansion, and the soldiers in charge of the lookout climbed to the top of the seven or eight zhang high and tied themselves to the wooden poles with ropes to avoid accidentally falling.

First of all, the sub-mother cannon fires, and the shells fired are special warheads with red phosphorus, which can burn for a long time at night, emitting red light, and it is easy to determine the direction of the impact point.

One after another shells whistled out, and after the explosion, a ball of flames burned, reflecting the streets in Daxing Mansion clearly, and the bullet impact points everywhere were particularly clear in the night. After the approximate location was confirmed, hundreds of high-explosive shells departed from the chamber, and the target was the state capital where Zhehu lived.

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