"Report to the general, Li Yiming's department has taken the Acropolis, and the 20,000 Yuan troops in the city have been annihilated, and the two intersections to the north have been blocked, and they will never get rid of a Yuan soldier."

"Good!"

Zhao Tianyou began to attack two military villages with the Yuan army, the simple fortifications could not even withstand a round of artillery bombardment, and after the defending Yuan army was killed and wounded about thirty percent, Kublai Khan ordered to open the south gate and put more than 20,000 Yuan troops into a pot of porridge into the city.

At this point, the encirclement of the Song army on all sides has been completed, and every road leaving the capital of Yuan is under the control of the Song army, and there are nearly 300,000 people up and down in the capital of Yuan, and I am afraid that no one will be able to leave safely.

At this time, Zhao Tianyou gave up the method of bombarding the city wall with heavy artillery, but concentrated all the men and horses more than 300 steps away from the range of the Yuan army, excavated the earth to build embankments and dams, and advanced little by little, and finally built a tall earthen city outside the four gates of the Yuan Dadu, which was just about a zhang higher than the wall of the Yuan Dadu.

This method has been used since the Mongol cavalry marched westward, after building a high earthen city outside the city, and then sending archers to condescend and destroy every defender they can see with arrows, so that the siege of the city becomes very simple and fast.

With this method, the Yuan army conquered countless military towns in the Song Dynasty, almost close to the northern defense line of the city, each of which was once attacked by the Yuan army in this way, and today the feng shui takes turns, and it is the turn of the Yuan army to defend the city and enjoy this attack from the overhead.

But Kublai Khan had no choice but to send troops to defend the city, once the troops in front of the city gate were thin, the Song army sent people to pull earth and stones to fill the moat outside the city, which really made Kublai Khan grit his teeth and shoot at the Song army on the earth city.

In the early days of the siege of the Song army, although the people in the city were frightened, they were not completely in despair, after all, in the northwest, Sichuan, and Yunnan-Guizhou, there were still hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry of the Yuan army garrisoned, and the requisition order issued by Kublai Khan should have been received a long time ago.

Once these elite troops sent by the expatriate return to the capital of Yuan, then the Song army will definitely retreat under the enemy's back, and when it is time to choose a suitable opportunity, go out of the city and gallop all the way north back to the grassland, at that time the Song army still dare to chase and kill?

But time passed day by day, and thousands of Yuan troops died in the bow and arrow battle every day, and countless people were wounded. Such days are like a knife and zero cut, although it is not fatal but it bleeds every day, it is not very painful but there is no easy moment, with the increase of the number of injured, the storage materials are quite sufficient, but the lack of medical treatment has become the norm.

Originally, it was mainly a Chinese medicine, and all kinds of herbs and gold sore medicines for medical treatment were configured by them, and as the number of patients increased, the consumption intensified, and the inventory of medicines would soon run out, but because there were new wounded every day, there were not enough people to allocate new medicines.

Several large courtyards next to the city gate were vacated to house the wounded and sick, and the rooms inside were full of people, but every day new wounded people came in, and gradually the halls and rooms were full of people, and if the wounded soldiers were added, I am afraid they would have to live in the corridors or on the ground.

It's not that there are not enough buildings in the capital of Yuan, there is no place to live and sleep, and the buildings built by Kublai Khan are enough for 500,000 people to live in, but that the resources and medicines of doctors are in these courtyards, and if you leave here, you have to treat yourself yourself.

"Great Khan, there is a serious shortage of medicinal herbs in the military camp, there are some reserves in the palace, but they can't support them for a few days, there are too many wounded soldiers, there are already five thousand wounded in Nancheng alone, so many that there is no place to place them."

The officials in charge of the allocation of materials are also very helpless, it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, now there is no input is out, and the number of new injuries and illnesses is increasing every day, if it cannot be supplied from outside the city, then the medicinal herbs in the capital of Yuan will soon be cut off.

In the past, there were several very large Chinese herbal medicine markets in Daxing Mansion, and the Chinese medicine merchants in Hebei Province and Henan Province would transport the best materials to Daxing Mansion first, hoping to establish a business with Yuan Dadu on medicinal materials.

But now that Daxing Mansion has been occupied by the Song army, the largest medicinal material warehouse and trading house in the north are all in Daxing Mansion, and I didn't think the location was very important at the beginning. Now Kublai Khan has regretted it very much, and there should be a shortage of other businesses and materials of the Han people, as well as the trading and distribution center of these materials in the capital.

Only gold, silver and jewelry, which were of limited help to the war, were not as useful as food and medicine, and in the past, the reserves and plundering of the Yuan capital were not unrelated, and Kublai Khan built numerous palaces and warehouses to store and display rare treasures from the Song Dynasty.

And the storage and trading of food, medicines, cattle and sheep and other living materials are scattered in a few small cities around the city, and I never thought that the Yuan metropolis would be besieged on all sides, but it was too late to think about it now.

"General Zhao, how slow it is for us to attack the city like this, it is better to mobilize heavy artillery to bombard him and blow up all the main gate towers to the sky, and shoot back and forth like this, how thankless!"

Only one person can say such a thing, that is, Du Hu dares to speak like this, and he doesn't dare to say it in front of Zhao Tianyou if someone else borrows three dares.

"Haha, this matter, you will know in the future, there are urn cities inside and outside the walls of Yuan Dadu, even if you blow up one wall, you can't attack it, and if you barely rush in, you will be surrounded and killed on all sides, which is not desirable."

Zhao Tianyou is quite satisfied with the current progress, he doesn't want to damage this city wall that has been built with the strength of hundreds of thousands of people, and he doesn't want to blow up the things in the city, it won't be long before it's his own, and no one will pay for the damage.

Another advantage is that the soldiers' battle losses are extremely low, and the main attack on the enemy on the earth city is the divine arm bow, which has a long range and strong lethality, and also occupies a favorable position in a high position, so that the Yuan army has no temper at all.

Of course, the defenders in the Yuan capital are also equipped with divine arm bows, but the difference in terrain at this height has formed a huge gap of nearly eighty to one in battle losses, and the Yuan army, which is almost defenseless, has to bear hundreds of casualties every day.

The same picture was staged at the four city gates, and at this rate of battle damage, it would not take more than a month for those hard laborers who were temporarily forced to go to the city to shoot arrows, as well as the official guards under his command, all of them would be wronged by the arrows of the Song army.

One gentleman, one minister, one table, one case, the wine and food on the table are quite rich, this time there are no precious wine glasses, and there are two ordinary white porcelain cups in front of the two people.

"Great Khan, have you ever thought about making peace with Song Jun?"

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