Section 82: Saving Wei

Hu Yangeng said again: "Neizi is pregnant, please also ask the third lady to take care of one or two." ”

Zhi Yuelan didn't say anything, and Lu Mei, who was serving tea on the side, shouted: "Sister Zhe is not someone from your family, how can you take care of it?" The general was really joking. Zhi Yuelan took advantage of the situation and did not take this stubble, but said to Lu Mei: "Rude, punish you for sending a general on my behalf." ”

Zheyuelan set up a camp outside Cangzhou City, and she and the women and children who came back from Daizhou lived in the camp. Hu Yangeng looked at the children frolicking in front of him and praised: "The third lady is really amazing, she can kill the enemy when she gets on the horse, and she can govern the people when she gets off the horse." ”

"Yes, Sister Zhe has the ability, when the old Zhizhou is still there, Sister Zhe will help his father deal with the affairs of Daizhou and try the case."

While the two were talking, they inadvertently got closer, and Hu Yangeng hooked his fingers and held Lu Mei's hand.

Lu Mei shook it twice, but did not shake it off: "You said that you would keep me innocent." ”

Hu Yangeng leaned into her ear and said, "You have been seen and touched by me, you should still be able to marry someone else." ”

Lu Mei didn't speak, and Hu Yangeng said again: "I'm about to go on an expedition, do you want to take revenge first?" ”

"The general is self-respecting." Lu Mei shook off Hu Yangeng's hand and turned to leave. Hu Yangeng looked at her panicked back, and was in a very happy mood.

Hu Yangeng left the six regiments to guard Cangzhou, and set off with the Beiwei army and the first, third, fourth, and fifth regiments.

At present, there are three state capitals of Zhaozhou, Shenzhou, and Daimyo that are besieged by Jin soldiers, but which one to save, Hu Yangeng can only think about it himself. The strengths of Zhang Yantang, Zhao Bozhen, and others are all in government affairs, and Qiu Muling, Zhonglian, and others have been able to lead the military formation very well and accomplish the assigned campaign tasks, but they have not yet shown the ability to analyze the overall strategic situation.

Hu Yangeng himself does not have this ability, but fortunately, he comes from the later generations and has a basic prediction of Jin Bing's general actions and goals, so he can think of some ways to deal with it.

The three state capitals that are now besieged are naturally the most important with the Daimyo, which is locked across the Yellow River and connects the north and south. If the daimyo is lost, the Hebei prefectures will lose their fulcrum, and the Hebei Song army will collapse completely.

On the contrary, even if both Zhaozhou and Shenzhou fell, as long as the daimyo remained, the Jin soldiers would not be able to smoothly move south to Gyeonggi.

Thinking of this, Yao Youzhong and Wu Ge's friendship with himself is to be considered later.

The army set out from Cangzhou and traveled up the Yellow River by boat to the southwest. When passing through Wuyide, it was discovered that Wuyi had been occupied by Jin soldiers.

"It seems that the gold thief has taken control of the entire territory of Jizhou." Hu Yan Geng said, "The order goes down, the fleet slows down, Zhang Heng leads three clippers to explore the road half a day in advance." ”

Soon, Zhang Heng came with news from the front that on the Yellow River in Zhangnan Town, the Jin soldiers had set up a city and completely blocked the waterway. The castle is roughly the shape of a castle made of wood, with wooden boats or rafts at the bottom. The whole city was floating on the water.

Zhang Heng drove a fast boat back by himself. It's a real nuisance.

It is said that it can be attacked with fire, anyway, there are many flying fire crows in Huyangeng's fleet. But the city is upstream, and the fleet is downstream, if the city burns up, out of control, and floats down the Yellow River, it will be a disaster for Huyan Geng's entire fleet.

When Hu Yangeng was discussing with Zhang Heng, he found that many archers appeared on both sides of the strait, and a fire was lit.

"Hehe, Suo Lu learns so fast, he will attack with fire." There is no need to hesitate at the moment: "The fifth regiment to the left bank, the fourth regiment to the right bank, rush to the beach and land." ”

The fierce battle outside the Daimyo Castle had been going on for many days, and the three-way golden soldiers had completely set up camp and completely blocked the Daimyo's land outlet.

Commanding the attack on the Daimyo was Wanyan Wushu. Although the Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Liduo who led the troops this time were higher than Wanyan Wushu, they still gave up their command in order to accumulate prestige for Wanyan Wushu.

Because Wanyan Wushu is much younger than Wanyan Yan's mother and Wanyan Liduo, in terms of age, Wanyan Wushu is the longest-living of a group of loyal ministers and fierce generals who founded the Jin Kingdom, and he can protect the Jin Kingdom for a longer time.

Wanyan Wushu only surrounded the daimyo on three sides, one came, surrounded three que, it has always been a practice to besiege the city, so as not to besiege too much, causing the city to see that there is no way out, simply break the cauldron and sink the boat, and give them a fish to die and break the net. Only by letting go of life can the enemy's fighting spirit be broken

What's more, Wanyan Wushu has long been aware that there are no fierce generals in the city, only an old army leader. There may not have been any fighting spirit. On the side of the net, there may still be a chance to use scheming, and maybe you can occupy the daimyo without bloodshed.

Second, the daimyo is on the north bank of the Yellow River, and even if Wanyan Wushu now has nearly 60,000 people, the Jin soldiers are not good at water warfare, so they will not give the Song army heads.

Wanyan Wushu began to siege the city.

Tens of thousands of troops spread out, facing each other on all sides, banners like forests, horns, gongs and drums, and the neighing of war horses, one after another. From the day he arrived in Daimyo, he continued to dig ditches and walls.

In just three days, the deep ditch and high fortress outside the city were rebuilt, repeated inside and outside, and the road was never lost.

If it is said that the Wanyan Wushu Network opened the west side of the city in order not to cause a death battle in the city, then the deep ditch and high fortress were to attack the belief held in the city. If you can't hold on, and you don't want to fight to the death, what else can you do? There is no other choice but to abandon the city and flee. Siege, to put it bluntly, in addition to offensive and defensive means, a lot of time is more important, and attacking is actually will.

The forts of the Daimyo's defense line were unusable, and the trenches with the fortress as the fulcrum were not garrisoned, so Wanyan Wushu easily broke through and occupied the good fortress area that took a year to build.

There is a moat outside the daimyo castle. On the third day of the siege of the city, the moat had been filled

Wanyan Yanmu's hard army is really brave and good at fighting, and is not afraid of death. The military law of the Jin soldiers is strict and harsh. The battle to fill the moat was so tragic that although Suo Chao in the city had the courage of ten thousand people and had experienced a vicious battle for a long time, it was the first time he had encountered it.

The Jin army first used vehicles to block the earth, and the daimyo blocked it with artillery, trebuchets, rockets, and bows and crossbows, and sent brave generals out of the city to harass them. After the rise of the Yan Wushu War, he put on armor and supervised the battle.

By the moat, flying arrows are like locusts, walking stones and rolling pills, shouting to kill the sky.

After two days of hard fighting, the initiative was sometimes on the side of Wanyan Wushu, and sometimes on the side of Guo Yong and Wenda. Later, Wanyan Wushu not only used a cart to carry soil, but the number of carts was limited, and a lot of damage was destroyed by the Daimyo army in the battle, so he simply mobilized the people and the weaker soldiers in the army, and everyone used cloth bags to carry the soil and travel with the cart. and ordered the spirits to be driven behind.

Those who were cowardly and wanted to retreat were killed on the spot, mixed with carts, and thrown into the moat. From time to time, in the process of transporting the earth, people and soldiers were hit by arrows and stones in the city, and whether they were dead or not, as long as they had no time to return, they were all pushed into the river.

It was okay to be hit by arrows and stones, but some were hit by rockets, and they were on fire, and before they could scream, they fell into the water, and carts and bags of soil were poured down.

The fire is extinguished, but no one is seen. I don't know if it's soil or people who fill the river. The viewer changes color.

In this way, from morning till night, the moat is flat.

Wanyan Wushu filled the moat and did not rush to attack. In the next few days, while digging a trench, he braved the arrows and rocks in the city for the second time not far from the outside of the city, and used the excavated soil to accumulate into a mountain, which was slightly level with the city. A high ground several miles long and more than ten meters wide was piled up.

He brought less than 60,000 horses to the siege, but he recruited more people. Hebei is known as a million displaced people, and if they use cavalry for a while, there will be cannon fodder for more than 10,000 people, digging ditches and fortifying mountains, and although the casualties are heavy, the progress is not slow.

The earth and mountains are built, and the overpasses and other things are built, one end is placed on the earth mountain, and the other end is placed on the head of the city. Soldiers can run through the overpass, which is much less laborious than climbing the ladder. However, there are drawbacks. The flyover is also likely to be broken.

However, even if the flyovers are all broken, it doesn't matter. Pull the stone and put it on the dirt mountain, mobilize the crossbowmen to climb to the top of the mountain, and the opposite city is level, and then the bow and crossbow are fired together, and the cannon and stone roar, so as to hit the city, it is also very effective to get twice the result with half the effort.

Attacking the city seems like a stupid way. If you want to crack it, it's hard.

After completing the Yan Wushu soil mountain, he attacked the city in a big way. Storm day and night, divided into generations.

Wanyan Wushu launched an attack at noon, when the daimyo guards should eat. Seven or eight flybridges were built, and the flybridges he carried were not very wide, more than a few feet. His generals wore heavy armor and held long knives, leading hundreds of dead soldiers to gallop on the bridge and attack first. Twenty or thirty ladders leaned against the city wall, and thousands of brave people climbed up, fell and ascended, and there was no retreat.

On the dirt hill and behind the cloud ladder, countless balls and strong bows and crossbows were launched together.

Then use the rushing car to hit the city gate. The gates are strong and cannot be broken. Instead, they rammed into the weak points of the city walls. The chariot was heavy and thick, and the soldiers who pushed the chariot were covered by shields, and they themselves wore thick armor. These selected riders are all strong men who pull the bull. With each impact, the city shook.

However, the daimyo is exactly Ayutthaya. The walls were strong and difficult to destroy in a hurry. Although Suo Chao is active and unknown, he is a fierce general, and the head of the city is also guarded steadily. The battle lasted until night, and the Jin soldiers left hundreds of corpses behind and returned to the camp. In the Daimyo Castle, the defenders also suffered three or two hundred casualties.

A fierce battle came down. Early the next morning, Wanyan Wushu attacked the city for half a day. After a short break in the afternoon, the siege was resumed shortly after nightfall.

After many days of fierce fighting, the guards in the daimyo castle were full of complaints.

It is not that there are no warriors in the Wenda army, and the good and the bad are mixed. In the past few days of hard fighting, the casualties have been not small. The blow to morale is huge. See also along the Yellow River, there are few Jin soldiers besieged. In the bloody past at the beginning, after witnessing the various fierceness and might of the Jin Army, some generals began to make suggestions and proposed to Wenda that instead of the jade being shattered, why not go to the south gate, preserve the strength, and withdraw to the rear?

Although Wenda reprimanded the proposed colonel back every time, what did he really think? Do you really disagree, or is it just a posturing? Nobody knows.