When Zong Han comes back from Beijing, how can you, the left-behind generals, explain to Zong Han? He told him to keep the southbound passage unblocked, and when the spring begins, even if he doesn't go south to attack the Song Dynasty, he will have to sweep away the Yingzhou Prefectures!

After Yin Keshu made the decision to go south to attack the Jinyang army, the Jurchen generals who stayed behind were supported by everyone and were all elated, but it was not that no one proposed to simply go south and defeat Yingzhou.

Yin Keshu didn't say much, took them to Yingzhou to take a closer walk, just look at the terrain, the Jurchen is strong and dares to fight at the moment, but it doesn't mean that they will die in vain, Yingzhou City is small and strong, it is the military difficult to attack the fortress, the big city is often easy to attack and difficult to defend, because the city needs more soldiers, and the troops are slightly worse, which means that the city defense is a big flaw, and the big city is often not in a dangerous place, but it is a convenient place to operate, otherwise it cannot form such a scale, The surrounding villages and towns are also attached to the big city, which has a considerable scale.

Siege and battle, the field is plundered, enough to support the army, and you can collect enough materials to build siege equipment, and there are enough places to put these siege equipment, what kind of siege means can be used, the latter reason is that the city university will have more soldiers and civilians, and logistics is also a big problem.

Once surrounded, the daily consumption of the city is a huge number, but it may not be able to support it for too long, and the small but strong fortress built in the dangerous terrain will avoid the above weaknesses, and the small city will be enough if there are not many soldiers.

The terrain is steep, there is not much money around, it is difficult for the army to be trapped in the periphery for a long time, and the siege equipment cannot be put out and cannot be used, and a certain amount of food and military resources are enough to support the small defenders for a long time.

In the real history that Yang Ling experienced, Diaoyu City was the representative of such a small but strong fortress. Not many defenders relied on this place to defend not for a year or two, but for decades!

What decades means, means half a feudal dynasty era.

The initial strategic intention of the Mongols was simple, at the beginning, the Mongol iron cavalry went south, and was met with desperate resistance from the Southern Song army and civilians in Xiangyang City. As a result, the Mongol rulers of the dynasty drew conclusions from the southward route of their predecessors, the Jurchens, and finally divided into two armies to go south, one still fighting Xiangyang, and the other preparing to open a way out from Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.

Who knows, the Mongols are only kicked to the iron plate, although in 1236 A.D. they captured Chengdu, the whole Sichuan was shaken, but the soldiers and civilians of Chongqing in Sichuan relied on Bashan Shushui. Never compromised, later Yu Yu for the Sichuan system envoy concurrently served as the prefect of Chongqing when he vigorously deployed Sichuan defense, Diaoyu City at that time became the command center of the anti-Yuan, and later there were Ran Jin, Ran Pu two brothers to provide advice, the Diaoyu City management is solid, this time is 1242, Diaoyu City has been held for 6 years.

Year 1254. Wang Jian, the defender of Diaoyu City, swore to resist the Mongol army to the death and was appointed governor of Hezhou. Hezhou is now Hechuan District, Chongqing City, this is a big change in Diaoyu City, Wang Jian mobilized 170,000 soldiers and civilians in five counties of Hezhou to build Diaoyu City, since then Diaoyu City has really become an iron wall, its strategic significance can not be ignored. It can be said that Diaoyu City became the top priority to support the war situation in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River of the Southern Song Dynasty, and to put it more bluntly, this small city with a population of less than 200,000 supported half of the Southern Song Dynasty.

By 1258, Wang Jian's painstaking efforts were not in vain. Across the world, until the Mediterranean Mongolian iron cavalry in the Diaoyu City broken halberd and sank sand, Wang Jian led the defenders of 3,000 people, 100,000 soldiers and civilians to defend this place, first the Mongolian army forward Marshal Wang Dechen died in the city, and then the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge personally presided over the whole battle, and finally Wang Jian ordered people to set up cannons and crossbows to beat Meng Ge to death.

This battle is very important, to put it in detail, it is the mysterious cannon that is very important, this cannon changed the history of the world, the Great Khan Meng Ke died, the Khan position was empty, and the brothers of Meng Ge, who had been fighting until Europe, collected their troops and returned to fight for the Khan position.

Otherwise, this group of war maniacs didn't know where to fight, not to mention for the time being, at least for the Southern Song Dynasty that resisted Mongolia at that time, all in all, this battle gave the Southern Song Dynasty regime a breather again.

Wang Jian made a great contribution, and after two years was transferred to the center of the imperial court, it is worth mentioning that a large part of these guards and horses are the remnants of the Western Army, including Wang Jian's successor Zhang Yu, this person's ancestors are estimated to have been Qin Fengjun's before, Shaanxi Road Fengzhou people, Zhang Yu has been sticking to Diaoyu City until 1277, the Southern Song Dynasty perished, at this time Zhang Yu was also transferred out of Diaoyu City, presiding over the defense line of Chongqing, and finally the Chongqing defense line was betrayed by traitors, the defense line collapsed, Zhang Yu was defeated and captured.

Diaoyu City's successor Wang Li was already struggling at this time, the Southern Song Dynasty perished, and the whole world was left with the isolated city of Diaoyu City, which fought for decades, and Diaoyu City was also exhausted of ammunition and food, and even the phenomenon of cannibalism.

But even in this case, the Mongols still did not take the Diaoyu City, Wang Li defended it for two years, and finally in 1279, the Diaoyu City really came to the last step of resisting the Mongols, Wang Li was forced to desperation, in order to save the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city as the condition to lead the people to surrender the Yuan.

Forty-three years, several generations of bloody battles have not been able to save this nation, to this day, every time the descendants come to Hechuan Diaoyu City, see the four big characters above the Huguo Temple can not help but be surging - fishing alone in the Central Plains.

Here it can be seen that the small city actually has a defensive advantage under nature, the Mongols died a great khan and did not capture the situation is enough to explain everything, one more thing, the Southern Song Dynasty guarded Xiangyang, but also relied on Xiangyang Fancheng two small city fortresses to rely on each other, the two defenders are only thousands each, so insist on defending hard.

Here, the Yingzhou city fortress is steep and strong, not under the Diaoyu City, attacking this kind of city fortress can only be filled with life, and it may not be able to take it down if it is filled up, the remaining generals of the Jurchen West Route Army led by Yin Keshu suddenly formed a unified opinion, Yingzhou can't be beaten, then go around, hit to the south of Yingzhou, sweep the Yunnei states, let the Jurchen athletes, take a good break!

If Zong Han can bring back the good news that he can attack the Song Dynasty from Shangjing, everyone will kill them all the way to the Song people! Bypassing Yingzhou, it is indeed difficult to travel on the road, and the Outer Great Wall is set up by relying on the steep and continuous mountains here.

But at this moment, the Great Wall is broken, the Han family athletes on the border are not there, even if there is natural danger, they can no longer stop these money rat tails, and they are standing at the peak of their national armed forces. (To be continued.) )