In the camp of the Chu army, Zhao Hua endured the pain of the broken arm of his left hand, and summoned all the generals of the Chu army who attacked the Xiangyi factory to discuss the next steps together.

"Sima, I think we can't attack the city anymore! Although this riverside city was built in a relatively short period of time, and its layout is very different from ordinary cities, its walls are high and strong, and it has such sharp weapons as ballista carts and witch water, which we really can't capture! A general said with a look of fear.

When someone suggested that the city could not be conquered, a general named Zhao Ke said: "Sima, I thought that in order to take this place, it was not necessary to take this city by storming. Sun Tzu Youyun: Go to the army to fight, then cut the enemy, then attack the city! What we are doing now is what we are doing, and the city we are attacking is also a rare fortified city in the world, and it is not a good thing to do it so brutally! ”

As soon as the general's statement came out, another person immediately added: "Sima, what Zhao Ke said is extremely true! There are many ways to take a city, and you don't have to behave to siege it. The Song State is weak, and I think that we can completely let the Song State cede the south bank of Suishui to us by putting pressure on the Song State, so that we can completely take this place without blood! ”

At this moment, a guard came in and announced: "Sima, General Zhaorat has broken through the Xiangyi Iron Mine and is asking for a meeting outside the account!" ”

"Let him in!" Zhao said lightly.

Subsequently, a young general walked in, and it was the young handsome Zhao Rat who served as the vanguard of the Chu army's attack and conquered the Xiangyi iron mine in one fell swoop.

As soon as Zhao Rat saw that Zhao Slip had lost half of his hand, he was very surprised and said, "Uncle Slip, your hand was also lost in the battle?" Why is the fighting here so fierce? ”

Zhao Slip didn't speak, and the general next to him immediately described the battle scene under the city wall just now, focusing on the bed crossbow with a long range and a kind of witch and ghost water that could not be shaken off if it was touched. From the tones of these people, Zhao Rat had already heard endless discouragement.

Zhao Slip then said to Zhao Rat: "Zhao Rat, as a pioneer in attacking Xiangyi Iron Mine, it is very good that you have successfully won the Iron Mine in such a short period of time!" However, we are waiting here to attack the fortification, and we have suffered heavy casualties, and we cannot advance an inch, I don't know what you think? ”

Zhao Rat thought for a while, and then said: "Uncle Slip, now we can't capture the city, in fact, it's not that the enemy is too strong, but that our forces are too scattered!" Now that I have captured the Xiangyi Iron Mine, we have not captured the Xiangyi Coal Mine, so why don't we concentrate our forces on the Xiangyi Coal Mine before attacking the factory area? ”

Hearing Zhao Rat's words, Zhao Slip's face distorted by pain couldn't help but smile, and said, "Zhao Rat, your idea is very good, we will concentrate our forces now and knock down the Xiangyi Coal Mine!" ”

Under the command of Zhao Hua, the Chu army immediately turned its guns and began to concentrate all its efforts on attacking the Xiangyi coal mine. The coal mine, which had been at a stalemate in the war, immediately began to reverse the situation.

Although the Xiangyi Coal Mine was much larger than the Xiangyi Iron Mine, and there were more Song soldiers guarding it, it also had more places to defend. In general, its defense is even inferior to that of Xiangyi Iron Mine!

The strength invested by the Chu army in the coal mine was insufficient before, and the Song army was still able to hold it. However, now that the power of the Chu army has come up, the Song army can no longer defend it. However, after all, the coal mine is not far from the iron mine, and the lesson of the iron mine being quickly broken has been learned, and when the Chu army invests heavy troops, the generals of the internal defense immediately concentrate all the livestock and wooden wheel rail cars, and then take advantage of the Chu army's official attack, drag the rail cars with livestock and rush out of this Jedi at high speed!

In the end, nearly half of the Song soldiers in the entire coal mine escaped the siege of the Chu army and returned to the industrial zone. Although the soldiers were able to escape, the workers in the coal mine could not get out, and they were all captured by the Chu army.

When the Chu army took the coal mine, it was already evening. When the generals of the Chu army gathered again to discuss the next plan of action, many generals remembered the thoughts of the day, and they all suggested that the offensive should end here and take down the industrial zone by political means!

Faced with such a scene, Zhao Rat took advantage of the prestige accumulated by the two victories and said to everyone: "Xiangyi's industrial area, no matter how strong its defense is, we must attack, and we will attack it head-on!" Some people may think that we can take advantage of Song Jun's weakness and cede this place to us. But you must remember that if you want to prove that others are weak, you must show others that we are strong! Without victory on the battlefield, we would never have been able to get here. Even if we take this place by chance, this place will never become our stable territory, and there will be endless troubles in the future! ”

For Zhao Rat's opinion, Zhao Slip is very much in agreement! He immediately chimed in: "What Zhao Rat said is good! Without victory on the battlefield, we can't scare the weak Song Kingdom, and we can't take this place safely! I'll wait for a night's rest tonight, recharge my batteries, and tomorrow I'll concentrate on attacking the city again! ”

At the same time, in the industrial zone of Xiangyi, Rong Yi is also in a state of anxiety. Although the Chu army was under the city tower in the industrial zone, it suffered a very big loss. However, the Song army was not without casualties. When defending on the city tower, he was attacked by the crossbowmen on the Chu army's rushing car, which itself produced a large number of casualties!

Many of the soldiers who escaped from the Xiangyi iron and coal mines were also wounded, and the arrival of these wounded soldiers not only greatly increased the pressure on medical care, but also greatly reduced the morale of the soldiers in the industrial zone!

Fortunately, this time the Chu army attacked, after the earliest iron mine began to warn, Rong Yi sent an envoy to Xiangyi for help. The nobles of Xiangyi had deep interests entangled with the coal and iron industry here, and as soon as they heard that the Chu people were coming to attack, they immediately began to mobilize their own people and began to cross the Suishui to come to reinforcements.

Although Xiangyi has a coal and iron industry, it is ultimately a city with an agricultural economy. They could only send envoys from the city to the townships to gather people, and after everyone had gathered in Xiangyi, they went to the side of Suishui and arrived in the industrial zone by boat.

With such efficiency, it was not until the evening of the same day that the nobles and clan soldiers crossed the river and arrived in the industrial area. After seeing the tragic situation of wounded soldiers everywhere in the industrial area, Xiangyi Doctor Huan Jie immediately made a decision, transported all these wounded soldiers across the river, and put them all in the real rear of Xiangyi City for recuperation. In this way, the sound of crying in the industrial area gradually disappeared, and the morale of the internal community was also boosted by everyone's mutual encouragement.

And Huan Jie learned the specific battle situation from Rong Worm's mouth, and knew that after the coal mine and iron mine were conquered one after another, he also had to send a group of envoys to Taoqiu, Suiyang and the surrounding Fuli to report the situation and ask them for help!

When Fu left the city, Le Yi looked at the distress letter handed to him by Xiangyi, and couldn't help but hesitate. From the letter, he learned that a large number of troops of the Chu State had begun to attack the coal and iron mines of Xiangyi, and the situation was not optimistic!

Xiangyi's current situation is extremely strange, it belongs to the territory of Suiyang's management, but Taoqiu has great interests in this place. Le Yi, as the retinue of Princess Zhao Xue, is naturally loyal to the lord and the lord, according to his idea, Taoqiu has the interests of the lord, and he should immediately mobilize Fu Li's soldiers and horses to Xiangyi for reinforcements!

But he knew he couldn't do that now. Not to mention that he does not currently have the authorization of his own lord, he only trains cavalry and does not have the power to mobilize troops and horses. In addition, now the relationship between Taoqiu and Suiyang has begun to stiffen a little, if he acts without authorization and transfers a large number of cavalry to the land under Suiyang's jurisdiction, once a misunderstanding is caused, can he afford it?

In such a situation, the only thing that can be done is to temporarily stop all training, and transfer all the trained cavalry to Fuli City for assembly, so that the brothers can recharge their energy and maintain the posture of going out at any time!

Later, he sent his cronies to Taoqiu on a fast horse to ask his lord what to do next!

After having cavalry and knights, Tao Qiu prepared fast horses in all the places where he was interested, and when the Chu army began to sneak attack and Xiangyi got the information, Xiangyi sent fast horses to report the situation to Taoqiu. Although Xiangyi and Taoqiu are separated by several cities, the speed of this kind of information transmission is too fast, and that night, Dai Yan received the news of the attack on Xiangyi's industry!

This kind of news immediately made him nervous, but considering his wife's current situation, he did not show the slightest panicked look, but only sent more messengers to the front line of Xiangyi to learn more accurate news.

And after he sent the envoy, he soon received the news that the iron mines and coal mines in Xiangyi had fallen, and the industrial area of Xiangyi was also in danger! With these news coming, there are also letters and requests from Le Yi!