Lin'an City.

Yuhang Gate was wide open, and countless people, helping the old and the young, gathered on the royal street with the softness that they hurriedly packed up, and then walked back to Yuhang Gate step by step!

Just two hours ago, Chu Yong flew straight into Lin'an City with the passing horses of the Zhou Regiment Training Army. This cavalry is the only cavalry under the command of Jia Rudao, as the Ming army sped up the pace and swept the two Zhejiang counties, they have been scattered far away these days, closely monitoring the intersections and main roads. Today, there is finally important news back.

"Thief Chen's soldiers are coming from the direction of Shaoxing Mansion!"

Lin'an Mansion is now the last stronghold of the Great Song Dynasty in Liangzhejiang. In the past month, military officials who had been driven out of various state capitals by the Ming army continued to come by boat and car in droves. It has made Lin'an City more crowded. Naturally, the supply in the city is getting tighter and tighter. Jia Rudao also stacked his spirit and did everything possible to resettle. At the same time, the Lin'an officialdom was also fully mobilized, and notices were posted everywhere, asking all the people in the city who had nothing to do with the war to pack up their things and leave as soon as possible. so that the house and rations could be vacated for the defenders.

More than a million people in the city suddenly exploded. Most of them have lived in Lin'an City for generations, and they have families, businesses and houses in the city. This house in Lin'an is worth a lot of money, how can you say that you give up and give up? Although the deed and title deed can be taken away. But when the battle is over, will the house still be there? If the land on which the house was built is taken, will it be returned?

But Jia seems to be iron-hearted and wants to drive people away. Although Chen Dexing and Chen Huaiqing both thought that he was a traitor, Jia Yidao still regarded himself as a great Song Zhongliang. Now we have to fight for the Great Song Dynasty to the end no matter what. As for the problem that the water is too cold, the building is too high, and the rope is too thin, let's wait until we are cornered...... Anyway now. Jia Rudao tried his best to defend it.

So, from half a month ago. The Chang Ping of Lin'an Mansion will not put grain outside. If you don't want to leave, you can either eat the sky-high price of rice sold by rice merchants. Either let the men in the family join the army and eat Liang. There is always a portion of brown rice for the family.

However, in the past ten days, the offensive of the Ming army has intensified again. First, the city of Qingyuan was attacked. Shi Yanzhi and Ma Enzhe didn't dare to defend the city at all, so they directly abandoned the city and fled to Lin'an.

Qingyuan Mansion is also the same as Lin'an, it is a big industrial and commercial city. There were no righteous men and family members from other places to vote, and the city was full of merchants who forgot their righteousness.

These days, Zhoushan has begun to sell Mingzhou's gold and silver mining licenses! Don't pay either, as long as you provide a certain number of young women to be wives for the sergeants and military households who have settled in Mingzhou, you can get a license! It's a great deal, and it's a troubled time. Some of them can't afford to be raised by the daughters of poor families, so they can "buy" to recognize a goddaughter as long as they spend a little money.

Now most of the sea merchants on the side of Zhoushan have already bought licenses, and they are waiting to go to Mingzhou in batches to dig for gold! The wealthy merchants in Qingyuan Mansion are going crazy, if the Ming army doesn't come again, this gold will be dug up by others.

I don't know how many people in this Qingyuan Mansion City are looking forward to Chen Dexing's Wang Shi, who can still defend the city?

Immediately afterwards, the city of Shaoxing also fell. The leaders of the regimental training of Qingyuan and Shaoxing all entered Lin'an Mansion. In the past few days, Jia Rudao has set up a feast to contact them, and he drank all night last night. It's just that these loyal and good people of the Great Song Dynasty are all preoccupied, and there are many times when they are speechless. There are few times when there is excitement.

The big guy talks outside the talk. There is one thing missing, kill yourself and become a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty!

When the legend arrived, several loyal ministers were drinking with high spirits. I heard the sound of footsteps outside the house, and the sound had already reached before the people arrived. It is Jia Yidao's henchman Weng Yinglong. There was a little crying in his voice: "Taishigong, Taishigong." Thief Chen's GIs arrived. The soldiers of the Chen thief have arrived! ”

With a bang, the wine cup in Jia Rudao's hand fell to the ground and shattered! The traitor slammed to his feet. His lips squirmed a few times before he could easily speak.

"Quick, quick, fast...... Get the people out of the city! Tell them that the thief Chen is about to besiege the city, and if he doesn't leave, he will wait to be used as military rations! ”

To be honest, Jia Rudao is very sure about guarding Lin'an City, which has high walls, hundreds of cannons are arranged in all directions, and the number of defenders is also large. The regiment trained no less than 1340,000 soldiers, more than 30,000 imperial soldiers, and 15,000 gentlemen's battalions. All of them are added together, which is 180,000 soldiers!

It is not possible for these 180,000 soldiers to go out of the city to fight, but they can hold on to the fortress, and the only problem is that in Jia Rudao's opinion, there is not enough food to eat.

The army, the people, and the Yimen refugees and officials gathered from all over Lin'an City have a total of 1.8 million, if not 2 million! So many people, so many mouths, everyone wants to eat. The daily consumption is astronomical!

Once besieged by the enemy, the reserves in Lin'an City will be exhausted for a few months! Therefore, before the siege began, Jia Rudao had to drive the people out of the city - to drive the aborigines of Lin'an City away and let Chen Dexing relieve them. Leaving hundreds of thousands of defenders and Yimen refugees can hold on for a long time.

The longer you keep it, the more hope you have!

……

"Sage, a large number of people in Lin'an City have been driven out!"

"Sage, the people are all coming south, gathering on the north bank of the Qianjiang River, and there are several small wooden boats helping them cross the river......"

"Not only drove people out, but also a large group of Song soldiers went out of the city, looted the countryside around Lin'an, and snatched the grain back to Lin'an!"

Now that Chen Dexing has left Zhoushan, the banner of the Red Emperor Golden Sun and Moon, which symbolizes the emperor, has been flying high in the sky above Yanguan County, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Lin'an Prefecture. Chen Dexing, the son of tomorrow, was dressed in the uniform of the Son of Heaven, sitting in the original Yanguan County Government Hall, touching his beard and listening carefully to everything.

All around him were uniformed officers, or staff officers, or generals and commanders, all listening to the latest military reports with solemn faces.

Hearing that Lin'an City also sent people out to grab food, Land Rover jumped up, "Mixed things, you know that the people are harmed!" Saint, it's better to let a certain leader lead the army to kill for a while! ”

Hearing Land Rover's request to fight, the generals present were eager to try. Chen Dexing waved his hand and said with a smile: "Evil tiger, the matter of fighting has its own military advisors and staff officers who have repeatedly pondered and formulated plans, so let's just follow the steps." ”

The opportunity to besiege Lin'an City had already been spent several months by the Xingyuan General Staff Department to collect intelligence, formulate plans, and repeatedly deduce. A miniature version of Lin'an City was also made on Zhoushan Island, and several military exercises were held. In the end, a strategy of "digging trenches and attacking the city" was formulated.

It is in the north of Lin'an City, digging several parallel trenches connected by traffic trenches on both sides of the east of the city, and approaching the north and east of Lin'an City step by step. Finally, it was bombarded with a mortar cannon - the mortar cannon was also "invented" by Chen Dexing. It's a kind of cannon that is short and fat, and looks like a cauldron. This cannon is a curved cannon, which can be placed in a trench to open a flower shell to bombard the city wall, and it is difficult for the direct fire cannon on the city wall to hit them. Historically, Europeans have used this method to build fortresses. Although Lin'an City is not a fortress, it is also equipped with a large number of artillery, which is suitable for this kind of trench siege method.

It turned out that unlike Jia Yidao's imagination, Chen Dexing's Xingyuan Staff Department did not plan to take Lin'an City by besieging hungry food!

Chen Dexing touched his beard and said lightly: "It's good that Jia Rudao drives the people of Lin'an out of the city, and we can let go of our hands and feet when we fight." Moreover, there are also many strong men among the people of Lin'an, who are just pulled to dig trenches. ”

He turned his head to look at the Land Rover and said with a smile: "Evil Tiger, don't be in a hurry...... To attack the city, you have to be patient, spend ten days and a half months digging a trench, and then spend a few days bombarding the fort, and then the trench advances, digging all the way to Lin'an City, and then bombarding the city with mortars! ”

The siege of the city has now been turned into an engineering job by the staff officers of the Ming army.

……

"Taishi, Taishi, the thief army is digging trenches ten miles away from the north and east of the city, and has also captured a lot of people, and the progress is quite fast......"

Li Tingzhi walked quickly into the lobby of the Rite Department's Welcome Courtyard, which is where Jia Yidao's current capital hall is located. The people sitting inside were all people with status, and when they heard the news, their faces became solemn.

Jia Rudao remained silent, and said lightly: "It's just digging trenches and besieging the city, now there are hundreds of thousands of people left in Lin'an, and the reserves can support for two years, and we will not worry about it in two years." ”

In these years, the siege of the city was such a time-consuming and laborious work. Historically, it took the Mongols five years to attack Xiangyang! The defense of Lin'an City is only stronger than that of Xiangyang. Now there are 180,000 defenders, so many cannons, and food that can be eaten for two years - not to mention, after a toss for Chen Dexing, these scholars in the Southern Song Dynasty really cheered up a lot!

In history, if they could build such an iron-clad Lin'an City, it is estimated that Boyan, Ashu, and Zhang Hongfan would have to go home.

"Taishi, are you going to send troops out of the city to fight?" Li Tingzhi is not as optimistic as Jia Yidao, he just went out of the city to watch the battle under the escort of the cavalry. I always feel that the enemy front is murderous, and those steel-armored soldiers look at their morale high, as if they are ready to fight at any time, not like they are going to sit and besiege the city.

Jia Yidao was silent for a long time, suddenly smiled, waved his hand and said: "You don't have to fight, you can follow Chen Dexing's wishes!" Let's just hold on, first defend the branch fort outside the city, and then fight according to the city...... If we can keep it for two years, we will be worthy of the official family and the Taishang. ”

Jia Rudao actually has a wishful thinking, which is to let Lin'an survive Hongdu...... Now that the official family of the Great Song Dynasty is in Hongdu, if the official family surrenders, then he will naturally surrender. In this way, he will not be a second minister, and he will not be an official in the future, so he will retire in Geling, West Lake. (To be continued......)