Time passed slowly in the preparation for the decisive battle, and the trenches and artillery fortifications of the Song army were taking shape little by little. The Ming army successively uprooted the strongholds of the Song army in the north and east of Lin'an City, and pushed the battle line to the Lin'an city wall little by little, and pushed it to the trench front of the Song army. The planned time for the launch of the general offensive is coming soon.

Li Tingzhi has now lived in a tent that must be located outside Lin'an City, near the northeast corner of Lin'an City, very close to Yuhangmen, and not far from West Lake. Three or four hundred steps behind is the watchtower where Jia Rudao lives, and in front of him is a huge artillery barracks. Li Tingzhi put his Chinese army in this position because he estimated that the main direction of attack of the Ming army was in this area.

Because Lin'an Dongcheng has two city walls, Lin'an City once expanded to the east, and the slum area built in the east of the city was surrounded by a city wall. Therefore, it is very inconvenient to enter Lin'an from Dongcheng. It is best to break through from Lin'an North City, and then advance all the way along the Royal Street. Another advantage of breaking through near Yuhang Gate is that it can quickly occupy the west gates of Lin'an City along the city wall, so as to prevent the dignitaries of the Song army in the city from fleeing out of the city to the west - in addition to the West Lake in the west of Lin'an, there is a large area of mountains and forests, and further west is the remaining veins of Tianmu Mountain. Due to the limited strength of the Ming army, there was no deployment of troops in the west of Lin'an City, and if the gates of the west of Lin'an City were not controlled at the first time, it would be difficult to prevent the dignitaries in the city from escaping into Tianmu Mountain.

At this time, he was looking at the map under the dim light of the oil lamp. The battle line on the map shows an unprecedented battlefield situation. The troops did not live in camps or cities, but were scattered in artillery forts and makeshift camps near and far from a trench line twenty-seven miles long. Battles are no longer divided into day and night, nor are they fought in arrays. Rather, it is being carried out in all corners of the entire front all the time. And the battles at night tend to be a little more intense. The roar of artillery has not stopped for two consecutive nights, accompanied by the attack of Ming grenadiers. Although the number of people they dispatched was small, they did not allow people to sleep. The morale of the armies at the front is also rapidly eroding. In the past two days, a large number of deserters have appeared in all armies - fleeing directly from the trenches to the side of the Ming army!

Li Tingzhi, who has been a Mongolian for half his life, suddenly found that he was like a novice who had just entered the battlefield, facing a situation that he did not understand and could not control.

And the Ming army on the opposite side also seemed to find out that the Song army in the trench was demoralized, and in order to speed up their disintegration, they started from last night. The shouts of the Zhejiang language would be heard in the intervals of the shelling, and like the shelling, it would go on all day and all night.

"Is there a brother in Taizhou? I'm a ploppy Li from Linhai Duqiao. I was cast to Daming from the Du family regiment training army, and now I am a military household soldier, and I have been granted 100 acres of water to irrigate the land, just outside Linhai County, it turned out to be the land of the Linhai Fang family, which is worth at least 4,000 yuan! Come here quickly, as long as you take refuge, the saint will give you land and let you be a soldier. Then you will not be poor......"

As soon as the cannon stopped, the nasty shouting began again. It's not just a splash Li shouting, but hundreds of splash Skins howling there, shaking the hearts of the Song army on the front line.

A hundred acres of watered land! Enough for one to not be full. The bitter man who couldn't dress warmly and couldn't marry his daughter-in-law turned into a landlord and a wealthy man. Compared with Jia Yidao's "loyalty", the attraction of a hundred acres of land is too great!

And. The conditions offered by the Ming army were not limited to dividing the fields and becoming military households. Those who don't want to be soldiers and eat food have a way out just like the past.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to be a soldier. The saint can also send a ship to send you to Mingzhou to dig for gold and silver! There are mountains of gold and silver in Mingzhou, and there are so many gold and silver that they can't dig them all! All you have to do is be willing to come. You can take the saint's sea ship and go there to make a fortune! ”

The news of the discovery of the Mingzhou Continent and the discovery of Jinshan Yinshan has also reached Lin'an City. However, the regimental trainers in the city did not take it very seriously, because they all felt that such a good thing had nothing to do with them. But now...... This Ming saint seems to be better than the official family of the Great Song Dynasty!

The regimental drills in the trenches on the front line were all shaken. It is a fact that the Great Song Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, and to the capital and the citizens of the city. However, for the peasants at the bottom, the Great Song Dynasty did not have any protection and preferential treatment. The Great Song Dynasty did not have any favors to the peasants, so why should they risk their lives to be loyal now?

"Chen thief has apostasy, rebelled and made trouble, disloyal and unjust, his words can't be believed!"

"How can we abandon Confucius and Mencius and sect the Heavenly Demon (Heavenly Dao), how can we disturb people's hearts and righteousness!"

Fortunately, there are "talented officials" in the trenches, who can inspire people with righteousness, and if they want to replace it with the small army leader who only recognizes money like the original Song army, he may take the lead in defecting.

Looking at the righteous and awe-inspiring faces glowing red under the light of the lanterns, I thought of the loyalty of the Taishi Gongjia. The simple peasants didn't know how to choose for a while, and they all lowered their heads and sighed.

Although the large-scale exodus was contained, the Xiucai officials did not dare to send their men out on patrol. Once these regimental training soldiers leave the trenches, maybe the whole team will be thrown to the side of the Ming army!

The Song army's entire line shrank, which was equivalent to closing its eyes on the battlefield! The Ming army could assemble and mobilize under the cover of artillery and shouting, and could set up the starting position directly within 100 steps of the Song army's trench, and even hauled the artillery battalions and 12 10-inch mortars belonging to 18 military divisions to the designated position.

But Song Jun didn't notice it.

Li Tingzhi had already finished reading the map and shook his head, the tactics of trench against trench were not as good as imagined. In other words, he and his 100,000 troops did not really master this new tactic, which was a complex style of play, which was completely different from the previous battle of the Song army. It is really imprudent to rashly adopt a completely new method of operation without going through a single exercise. But if you don't fight like this, is there any other way? He sighed, now it's just a matter of doing his best......

At this moment, the roar of the earth shaking and shaking suddenly rang out!

A 120-pound flowering bullet landed near Li Tingzhi's tent, and the sound of a huge explosion near his ears was like the sky had fallen! All the people in the tent were shaken, the oil lamp fell off the table and went out, and Li Tingzhi's staff couldn't help but scream! The artillery group of the Ming army suddenly opened fire! And unexpectedly violent!

The powerful artillery group of the Ming army repeatedly bombarded the defense line that the Song army had painstakingly constructed, and clusters of orange flames exploded one after another around the Song army's fortification. The earthen walls, the cannons, and the severed limbs of people were all lifted into the sky. These are twelve ten-inch mortars at bay! And more solid iron balls repeatedly slapped the front line of the Song army like raindrops, and smashed the deer barricades and horses that the Song army had worked so hard to arrange into pieces.

Li Tingzhi reacted quickly, he got up and strode out of the tent, there was chaos outside, and there were soldiers of the Suizhou regiment training everywhere. Several of the Li family's sons and nephews were shouting loudly trying to rectify the order, and when they saw Li Tingzhi appearing, they immediately leaned in.

"Bachelor, it's dangerous here, you should go to the other side of the moat to avoid the cannons!" A Li family's showman said anxiously.

Li Tingzhi ignored him, strode to the top of the fort, and when he went up to a high place, he looked around and observed the position of the Ming army's artillery group. He must determine the location of these cannons at the first time, in his opinion, the place where the Ming army focuses on shelling must be the direction of the main attack!

At this time, countless torches suddenly lit up a thousand steps away, and the artillery group of the Ming army lit up, which must be the main force of the Ming army!

"Herald! Beat the drums, gather troops, and prepare for battle! Li Tingzhi roared loudly.

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Jia Rudao was holding Li Huiniang's hand and sleeping at this time, and he seemed to be a martyr in the history of this time and space. Therefore, Li Huiniang will not become a ghost to scare him, and there will be no "Red Plum Pavilion" in the future, let alone the nickname of "Cricket Prime Minister", at most, Jia Yidao will be called the pioneer of "entomology" research.

When the cannon sounded, Jia Rudao woke up suddenly, and the woman next to him also woke up. Li Huiniang's courage was not small, and she was not frightened by the sound of shelling outside, but got up very calmly and brought an official robe and a sword for Jia Rudao.

Jia Rudao's face was covered with beads of sweat, panting heavily, and he sat motionless on the couch until a slender hand pinched a silk silk to wipe his sweat.

"Taishi, Taishi......" The soft female voice sounded in Jia Rudao's ears.

"Oh." Jia seemed to respond, took a sharp breath, and stood up. Li Huiniang put on an official robe for Jia Yidao, put on a hood, tied a jade belt, and hung a three-foot long sword.

Jia seemed to say that he was in his bedroom, and there were already a few nephews surnamed Jia waiting neatly outside. Jia Rudao didn't say a word, strode out of the watchtower, stood on the north wall of Lin'an, and looked at the battlefield fixedly.

The situation on the battlefield seems to be clear at a glance. Because the brigades on both sides of Song and Ming have already begun to assemble with torches and lanterns! And the location where both sides assembled was very close to the watchtower where Jia Rudao was located.

"Master! Looks like tonight is the final battle! Liao Yingzhong didn't know when he had gone up to the city wall and arrived at Jia Rudao's side. He is now raising the Junzi Battalion, and there are nearly 30,000 gentlemen under his command -- under the encouragement of Jia Yidao, the Xiucai in Lin'an City finally set off an upsurge of enlistment in the army, and within three days, the number of Junzi Battalion doubled. However, these newly recruited gentlemen are all powerless scholars, and they can't go to the battlefield without a few months of training, so it seems that they can't dare to fight today's battle.

Jia Rudao nodded, but responded lightly, "It's tonight...... If you are defeated, the old man, the old man, the old man will ......" (to be continued......