Wan Yan is obviously determined to die, as he gets older, his body is getting worse and worse than before, and the difference between death and immortality is getting smaller and smaller.

The rise of Jurchen, from the beginning of sensible, is busy with this matter. From the inseparable grandfather to the impeachment of the bowl in the really most difficult time, the basic alliance of the five major tribes. To the inseparable father Aguda to complete the rise and destruction of the real Jurchen State. This process is the life that cannot be separated.

Today's Jurchen is declining more and more, and this life that is inseparable from it has probably come to an end.

The artillery outside the city slowly spread out in several positions, and the gunners once again cleared the chambers and poured gunpowder into them.

The Jurchens at the head of the city also knew about this step, and most of them began to hide under the city. I can't leave the city.

More than 400 artillery pieces bombarded the entire small city indiscriminately.

In the city of Huanglongfu, there have been many rounds of shelling, and most of the houses that were smashed by projectiles in the past have not yet been repaired. The scene in the city is bleak.

The consequence of the 400 cannons was that the city was truly a pile of rubble, and everyone took refuge under the walls, and there was no tile to cover themselves in the city, and there was no place to store supplies.

The huge roar stretched endlessly, and at the edge of the forest, there were countless Jurchens watching the Huanglongfu City from afar, but none of them rushed out of the forest to come to the rescue. Because this thick snow is really not a place where horses can gallop.

The Jurchens, who lost the impact of their horses and rushed out of the forest, obviously did not have the slightest meaning in the face of the tens of thousands of Han elites who were tightly arrayed.

The battlements at the head of the city, like a fence in a vegetable field, were easily toppled by artillery. It is the city wall, although it has not collapsed, but it is also full of holes. Although the solid projectile can't easily collapse the city wall, this scowled appearance looks like it's crumbling.

The large array of soldiers in white armor had already stepped up, stepping on the loud drums, very neat.

The Jurchens finally began to make their way up the city. But the cannon was still howling, and it didn't stop at all.

This was also something that the Jurchens did not expect. Step and run coordination, this term has only appeared for a short time, but this matter has already appeared outside the Huanglong Mansion.

Infantry and artillery coordination is the coordination ability of infantry and artillery. This is based on the improvement of the accuracy of the artillery, but also on adequate training.

In the past, if the infantry had started to advance, the artillery would have stopped firing long ago. Today, the infantry had reached a distance of more than a hundred paces below the city, and the artillery was still firing.

The projectiles that hit the city's head, and the earth and rocks that were thrown out, could even splash in front of the heads of these foot soldiers.

The flesh and blood of the Jurchens in the city are even more miserable. Some of them didn't fire a single feather arrow from their bows, and they were already a blur of flesh and blood.

It wasn't until the army was within a hundred paces that the artillery was completely quelled.

The city wall of Huanglongfu has almost lost its battlements, and even in many places, under the impact of the projectile, there is no masonry, revealing the rammed earth inside, and the rammed earth is smashed again, forming some steep soil slopes, although the soil slopes cannot be climbed up, but they bring more self-confidence to these men who are besieging the city.

The siege battle really began, and he stood at the head of the city without holding an iron spear.

The ladder is not long, and it covers the entire city wall. With the loss of the battlements, the wall also lost part of its defensive function.

The distance between the city and the city is no more than two zhang.

The sword and shield hand was in front, and he climbed up the ladder.

Behind the sword and shield hands, there are rows and rows of muskets, and the city walls without battlements are unimaginably difficult to defend in the face of rows and rows of muskets.

The scene in front of him was never expected.

Almost all the Jurchens who exposed their bodies to block the enemy's climb the ladder fell to the ground after a puff of green smoke under the city.

The segment of the musket's shot, no matter how many shots there were, brought a continuous stream of accurate projectiles. Most of these musketeers have never practiced crossbow shooting, and some of them may not even be able to draw a real hard bow, let alone shoot a crossbow accurately.

But within a few months, these people were armed with muskets, not to mention every shot, and most of them could point and shoot at a distance of twenty or thirty paces. Even at a distance of 100 paces, these people can be called accurate.

The efficiency of the musket lies in this, an accurate bow and crossbow shooter has always been practiced for many years, in winter and summer, in order to achieve the requirements of accuracy. The musket did not need such a training process in the slightest.

The feather arrows that fell sporadically from the top of the city, in the face of the cotton armor lined with iron sheets, seemed to be helpless, not to mention piercing the armor, most of them could not even hang up.

The cotton armor guards against feather arrows, not because of the iron lining plate, the role of the iron lining is to prevent the chopping of the blade. Cotton armor is protected against feather arrows, relying on tight fibers. Cotton armor against muskets also relied on tight fibers. A hard object like iron is easier to penetrate than a musket.

Dense white armor followed one after another under the head of the city.

The general trend has gone, and I can't leave a little sadness in my heart, but more relief. On top of this city, it has been guarded for more than ten years, and it has been passively beaten in recent years.

Xing Xu subconsciously knew that there would always be such a day, and every time he saw the Han army, it was different from the last time he saw it, the improvement of armaments, the mental outlook of the soldiers, and the change in attitude of less and less attention to the Jurchens.

These are all feelings that cannot be separated again and again, and they are also psychological changes that do not become more and more uneasy.

Fortunately, fortunately, the Jurchens still have the forest, the forest belongs to the Jurchens, and the Han people cannot compete with the Jurchens in the land of white mountains and black waters. Although the dream of a generation has been shattered, the reproduction of the Jurchens can at least be preserved.

This is the last thought of separation, and separation is not the generation whose dreams are shattered.

For separation, the meaning of life has long since passed away with a dream.

Therefore, it is impossible to die.

Died under countless musket pellets, covered in bloody holes. The widened iron armor, with wisps of gunsmoke, made it impossible to die on the head of the city.

The warrior died in battle, and it seemed to be the destination.

Circumference three is missing one, in fact, it is not only a strategic technique. It is also a technique of attacking the heart, implanting a kind of mental idea in people's subconscious that can escape. When people are passively faced with nine deaths and one life, the vast majority of people usually see death as home. When people have a life-saving straw, they will subconsciously reach out and grab it.

The courage of the vast majority of people inevitably leads to some people reaching out to grab the life-saving straw. The people in the city are collectively referred to as the Jurchens, but they are these Jurchen men, and in fact, a large part of them are not true or Jurchens.

The soldiers outside the city are all young and strong, and even many of them still have green faces. This is the advantage of the country of Great Xia with a population of more than 100 million.

Many of the soldiers in the city have gray hair on their temples, have been fighting for decades, and they have already taken their swords into battle. The young and strong are in the minority. This is the population limitation of the Jurchens, there is no real farming, the production in the forest cannot support so many people, the land of white mountains and black waters, the area is not wide, but the population is not able to get up, this is a congenital deficiency. The population is actually inferior to the grassland.

The Huanglong Mansion was broken, for Yue Fei, it was a reasonable and expected thing.

Perhaps for the Jurchens, it is also a subconscious acceptable thing. Compared with the past ten years, the experience of the past ten years is constantly predicting that there will always be such a day.

But Yue Fei crossed the Huanglong Mansion, and countless Han people in white armor went directly into the jungle.

This was something that the Jurchens did not expect!

Huanglongfu went to the main settlement of the Wanyan tribe, but it was not far away, and the straight-line distance was within two hundred miles. But the size of the mountains and forests increases this distance exponentially.

The center of Wanyan is the Harbin of later generations. The line from Liaoyang Mansion to Huanglong Mansion and then to the west. In later generations, it is actually the plain area of the northeast, this plain, to the west is the Great Xing'an Mountains, to the north is the Little Xing'an Mountains, and to the east is the Changbai Mountains. Sandwiched between three large mountain ranges, this plain is sandwiched.

But in this era, it is still a dense jungle place, and even small hills and hills are difficult to climb easily. Even where there are no hills, it is a place where the jungle stretches. Where the snow is thick, it can bury the waist. If you go further north, in a few more days, you can even bury people.

In summer and autumn, fighting against the Jurchens in such a forest, the victory rate is naturally extremely low. But in this harsh winter, the probability of victory is very high.

The cold is relatively equal to people. Even if some people are cold-tolerant, but cold-tolerance is only on the basis of people, and cannot go beyond the scientific scope of the human body.

There were as many as 50,000 soldiers who drove horses into the forest to the north, and Yue Fei himself also entered the forest. At the forefront were the cotton-armored musketeers, more than 20,000. Later, although there were not so many cotton armors, they were all wrapped in cotton jackets, and the cotton jackets were wrapped in armor. Everything to keep out the cold.

The army went forward and marched in front of the jungle. There are thousands of people in front of him who have other errands, which is to open the way. The way to open the way is to cut wood. Cut a road in the jungle that is not blocked by trees, so that followers can follow, and it is also to facilitate the transportation of baggage.

The jungle battle is the real tragedy. This war has really just begun!

In the land of the Western Regions, the tiger thinks and plucks his ears.

A difficult negotiation has finally come to an end. A big war that was about to break out finally died down. Even Hu Si sent a large amount of food in the city to supplement the logistics of the Great Xia army.

A letter spread from the post station in the Western Regions all the way to the river, and in the middle of the post station one by one, there were fast horses galloping endlessly.

Even so, more than six months had passed by the time the letter arrived at Dehejian.

At the court meeting, this letter became the theme.

Li Gang had just finished reading the contents of the letter. Zheng Zhi had already opened his mouth and asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Such court meetings in the Great Xia Dynasty are becoming less and less frequent, and the gathering of civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty is actually not a very efficient practice.

Nowadays it is more of a small group of meetings, such as Council meetings, Privy Council meetings, and so on. In some cases, meetings are confined to ministries. If a matter involves a large number of departments, joint meetings between various departments are also organized.

As in the past, the court meeting in which all officials of the yamen and the big and small participated in it was held only once a month. In the future, Zheng Zhixing may have to reform, and the reform will be once a quarter.

This way of working is to be efficient. If it were to be like that, it would be unnecessary for the officials of the two larger yamen to get up early in the morning and go to the imperial city to have a meeting. Meticulous office meetings are the pragmatic approach.

Along with this, it was also the reform of the internal official newspaper, and the content became more and more. This is one of the internal channels for national policy advocacy.

"Your Majesty, among the ministers, His Royal Highness King Zhao is really talented and virtuous. Such a decision not only avoided the event of a major war, but also achieved the desired goal. It's a win-win solution. Li Gang said that for Li Gang, there is no doubt that he supports himself as a student. Zheng Kai and Li Gang, teachers and students for more than ten years, needless to say, their relationship.

People, no matter how upright. Emotions are always extremely important in human nature.

Zheng Zhi looked at this letter from the extreme west, in fact, he didn't accept it very much at first, Zheng Zhi was too rigid, that is, he was too decisive in killing. Over the years, this has become more and more the case.

So Zheng Zhi didn't actually think about the method of cooperation. It wasn't until after reading the letter and thinking about it seriously that I felt that it was okay, and it was actually a kind of inner portrayal of Zheng Zhi that he was not willing to accept.

I heard Zheng Zhi speak: "Yelu Dashi has surrendered to be the king and accepted the canonization, but it doesn't mean much. The king and the emperor are just a name. Cooperation and surrender today, and rebellion in the future, there are too many such things in history. After all, it is not a safe policy. ”

What Zheng Zhi said was the worry in his heart.

Li Gang hurriedly continued: "Your Majesty, accepting the surrender of canonization is the general trend in name. In the future, I will slowly figure it out, and there are many means. Now, if the Khitans can go west with an army of 80,000, they don't know how much trouble they will save me in Great Xia. The sailors have already gone west, and with the momentum of this army, as long as they can defeat the Turks a few times. A small amount of land is ceded in the bay. In this way, the land of the bay can gain a firm foothold, and in the future, there will be an outpost for the purpose of expanding the territory. That's a win. ”

What Li Gang said is also extremely reasonable. Thousands of miles away by sea. It is also unrealistic to transport tens of thousands of troops to the Gulf, not to mention the problem of logistics and supply. Even if a large army and horses are transported, thousands of miles away, if you want to defeat the Turks and occupy the territory, it is a period with no chance of winning. The Seljuk Turks are not a small state, let alone an easy one to defeat.

If you want to gain a foothold in the bay, you need a small outpost. This outpost, the Turks obviously could not give the Great Xia Kingdom. Then it is necessary for the army of the Western Regions to force the Turks into submission.

There is a Western Liao as the logistics pillar, plus the 80,000 troops of the Western Liao, and more than 200,000 horses and horses to wage war against the Turks, which is to force the Turks to submit and force the Turks to obey if they are not satisfied. Thinking about it this way, it will be a long process to make Western Liao into a mess and then spend manpower and material resources to establish a unified regime. It's better to borrow a chicken to lay eggs now.

In this way, when the sailor goes west, he will immediately be able to go ashore and establish a stronghold. There is a stronghold, there is a business and a trade route. In the future, more and more Han Chinese will arrive there, there will be more merchant ships, supplies will be much easier, and transporting troops will become less troublesome.

The Crusader War will be fought for two hundred years. Although the Turks won many victories, they also suffered many heavy losses, and this was the opportunity.

The seed master also took a few steps forward and said, "Your Majesty, what Li Xiang said is reasonable. As long as our Great Xia maintains its military might, we will continue to develop and make progress in armament. The Khitans couldn't turn over the palms of their hands. What's more, the Khitans also ceded thirteen cities along the road. Although this is only the sincerity of Yelu Dashi, it also gives me my own control over the main transportation routes. In the future, the descendants of Yelu Dashi, even if they have a rebellious heart, can react quickly and destroy them with a large army. If the people of Western Liao did not rebel, there would be many ways to weaken them in the future. Your Majesty does not need to worry, His Royal Highness King Zhao is really talented and virtuous. ”

When Zheng Zhi heard this, he nodded after all. said: "This strategy is not bad, but it should not be taken lightly. Order, hasten westward. Named Yelu Dashi as the Khitan Liao King, Yelu Dashi sent all his heirs to the river to meet him. ”

Zheng Zhi repeated the old trick and asked Yelu Dashi to send his heirs, not to ask the hostages to coerce him. But it is to let these people come to read, go to school, learn Chinese characters, and read some of the ways of sages. After a few years, if Yelu Dashi returns to the west, Zheng Zhi will definitely immediately seal the new Khitan Liao king in the river.

As for the new Khitan Liao King candidate, it is obviously unnecessary to have both talent and morality. Whoever reads well and has a good character will stand up. A new Khitan Liao king was established, and then put back to manage the territory. This is the best means of control, and those who can fight and kill bravely must not become the king of Liao.

Zheng Zhi is extremely confident in the Chinese culture of this era. The influence of culture is often the main means of changing a person.

Just like Yelu Dashi, he can make such a decision to avoid a big war, and it is not because Dashi Linya is a person who has read the sage books. This cultural recognition is actually the main reason to avoid this war. In this era, only when culture is figured out can there be a foundation for mutual trust. Even in the millennium that followed, this principle did not change much. From the 200 years of the Crusades to the powder keg of the Middle East, cultural differences are the beginning of the most fundamental war, and interests accompany it.

Even if it is an ideological battle, it is also a cultural battle.

As for whether Jerod Dashi will send all his sons to the river according to the holy decree, this point depends on Jerodashi's decision.