Troubled times are coming, as long as you dare to fight, you don't have to worry about going out and getting into the picture.

And this time, the emperor handed over the responsibility of guarding Nanyang to him, which can be said to be extremely trusting. The terrain of Nanyang is even more dangerous, as long as it is guarded by elite soldiers, even if it is a strong army of more than 100,000, it may not be able to break through.

"Nanyang City, I'm steady!" Wang De said proudly.

Historically, Zhuge Liang led tens of thousands of troops to besiege Chencang City, and attacked day and night for more than 20 days with more than ten times the advantage of troops, but still could not be captured; Sun Quan led 100,000 troops to besiege Hefei City, and it was impossible to break through it for a month. Siege warfare also often becomes a protracted and time-consuming battle, for example, Zhou Yu's siege of Nanjun took a year, and Sun Ce's siege of Lujiang took two years to break through. From this point of view, Sun Tzu's "lowest siege city" in the Art of War makes a lot of sense.

As long as the equipment in the city is sufficient, the city walls are strong, and the soldiers are not afraid of death, no matter how fierce the Jin army is, it will not be able to break through Nanyang.

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At this moment, the Jin army arrived at the city of Nanyang and had besieged Nanyang for half a month, but Xiangyang still had not been conquered, and there were tens of thousands of dead and wounded. Although the dead were all Han Chinese soldiers, they could not be conquered for a long time, and their morale was faintly declining.

"Bianliang is difficult to overcome, Nanyang is difficult to overcome, I don't know what kind of scene Xiangyang is!" Jin Wushu looked at Xiangyang's formation, and was vaguely worried. Since this southern expedition, Jin Wushu's hair has turned a lot whiter, and the further south he goes, the stronger the resistance of the Jin army becomes.

On some unimportant cities, the Song army decisively gave up, buried the wells in the city, and the walls were clear, and there was no grain to be found, so they could only rely on the rear to transport.

In some key cities, on the dangerous terrain, it is arranged to be heavily guarded, Nanyang at this time. The number of troops is much less than that of Bianliang, but the terrain is more dangerous and the troops are more sophisticated, and next, the Jin army uses various means to attack the city.

First of all, Jin Bing had to build a number of "watchtowers" to observe the enemy's situation. It was only soon that the Song army took targeted measures, using bed crossbows and trebuchets to strike continuously, and some watchtowers that were too close were destroyed. It can only be moved backwards; However, after moving backwards, the distance is farther, but the observation effect is poor.

Then, a large number of soldiers were mobilized to fill in the moat. The method of stacking bridges is adopted, and the timber is first collected and bundled into simple wooden rafts. Connected as one, floating on the surface of the water. Then cover it with a layer of dry firewood. A layer of reed mats, and finally a mat with earth. This method of stacking bridges and taking roads is not only economical and easy to build, but also has a very strong ability to resist strikes, and "arrows and artillery cannot enter."

The Jin Army relied on this method. Those who invaded Bianliang City.

It's just that at this moment, Song Jun has already shown a way to crack it. In fact, the solution is very simple, that is, dry wood is thrown from the city, and later it is ignited by fierce fire oil (equivalent to oil). The fire was so fierce that it could burn even in water, and in an instant there were countless casualties in order to cross the trench.

After attacking the city, the ladders are dense and upward, and the soldiers under the city are "attached to the ants", and the soldiers on the city immediately time trebuchets, rolling stones, bows and arrows, spears, and various weapons go down together, and the density is extremely high. At this time, Nanyang, the city wall smiled a lot more than Bianliang, because it was small, and the density of soldiers on each section of the city wall was very large.

The continuous onslaught still did not overcome, and the casualties were not small.

Jin Wushu sent envoys many times to persuade him to surrender, but they all failed. This Song army will not accept surrender at all.

He also carried out earth attacks many times, dug tunnels many times, and tried to dig up the roots of the city wall, but he was also destroyed many times.

The continuous assault had a lot of casualties, and although the dead were all Han Chinese and worthless, the morale of the Jin army also declined. At this moment, if he wants to break through Nanyang, it seems that he will send heavy troops to besiege it for a long time, so that Nanyang will run out of food and deplete his troops, and finally break the city. Just like the Taiyuan in the past, Taiyuan was trapped alive and finally breached.

Just thinking about it, Jin Wushu shook his head, this is impossible.

Nanyang is not Taiyuan, this time and that time!

At that time, Zong Han set out from Xijing Datong to attack Taiyuan, the distance was only 500 miles, it was convenient to transport grain and grass, and there were many rich places near Taiyuan, which could be plundered on a large scale, and besieged Taiyuan with war; After Taiyuan was besieged, there was no aid in the city, and the more the war became weaker, the food ran out, the equipment ran out, and it had to be defeated.

And when he attacked Nanyang, he had transported grain from Bianliang, a distance of more than 700 miles, and it was inconvenient to transport grain and grass. And near Nanyang, it is even cleared by the strong wall, and even a mouse can't be found, and it is impossible to loot and fight with war. And he estimated that the food in Nanyang City would be at least a year, and if he was besieged, he might not have trapped Nanyang, and finally he had to retreat.

Just for a small Nanyang, besieging it for a year seems a little unworthy.

"Second brother, Nanyang is not easy to fight!" Jin Wushu sighed.

"This is also normal, the Song people have soft bones and hard bones; To deal with the soft bones, you only need to go around the city with soldiers and horses, and the Song soldiers will flee from the wind, or open the city to surrender; But some hard bones need to be overcome slowly to overcome! Zong Fu said, "Back then, the east and west armies went south, and the second brother avoided it when it was strong, and overcame it when it was weak, and it was easy for the soldiers to come to Bianliang City; And Zong Han has a hard temperament, always likes to hit the south wall, and besieges Taiyuan for a long time, resulting in the rescue of the Song army on all sides, and almost collapsed. ”

"It's better to divide the troops!"

"Division?" Jin Wushu said in astonishment.

"Only divide the troops!" Zongfu analyzed, "Nanyang is difficult to overcome, so I abandoned Nanyang, and just sent a small number of troops to besiege Nanyang, and most of the troops bypassed Nanyang and directly inserted into Xiangyang." The focus of this battle was on Xiangyang, and the focus was on capturing the emperor of the Song Dynasty, rather than on the gains and losses of one city and one place. As long as Xiangyang is conquered and the emperor of the Song Dynasty is captured, our army will win, otherwise one city after another will be conquered, and it will take many girls and true soldiers to sweep the Great Song Dynasty! ”

At this time, the golden vulture sounded, and the focus of this battle was to capture the emperor of the Song Dynasty, rather than the gains and losses of one city and one place.

"Then, second brother, I don't know how to divide the troops?"

Zong Fu said: "I led 30,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Nanyang; And the fourth brother, you personally commanded 100,000 soldiers and horses, and attacked Xiangyang! ”

"Thank you, second brother!" Jin Wushu said gratefully, this is the second brother deliberately giving him the credit.

"Second brother, be careful in this battle, the more you fight south, the more powerful the Song army will be!" ZONG Fudao,

"Second brother, don't worry, that emperor Xiao'er can't run away this time!" Excitement flashed in the Golden Vulture eyes.

Sosuke didn't refute, but a faint sigh flashed in his eyes. The Song army is getting more and more harmful, in the past, as long as a few hundred cavalry could crush tens of thousands of Song troops, or capture a big city; It's just that now, if you want to conquer the important town of the Song army, you must spend a lot of troops and take a long time.

The Song army was getting stronger, but most Jurchen generals still thought that the Song army was vulnerable.

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And at this moment, Zhang Jun has already set foot on the land of Guanzhong.

"This is the land of the pre-Qin, the Qin King Yingzheng swept the Six Kingdoms from here, the Han Gaozu destroyed Xiang Yu from here, and Li Tang set out from here to destroy Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande. Now I want to start from here to build meritorious deeds and achieve a great cause for a generation! Zhang Jun's face flashed with excitement, and his expression was a little crazy.

He was originally a seven-rank petty official, and he was like a cow in the Great Song Dynasty. If you are lucky, someone may be promoted to the center, and it will be the limit to become a fifth-grade official until they are old. It's just that the troubled times came, the Jin army went south, and the bigwigs in the court were either killed, taken captive, or surrendered by the Jin army, so there was a vacancy in the central government.

When Zhao Pu ascended the throne, he was poor and white, and there was no talent reserve at all, and he was in a bit of a hurry to become the emperor.

In a hurry, some people rushed to promote talents, so because he took refuge earlier, overnight, he changed from a seven-rank official to a third-grade official, and at this moment he is the envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi Road Town, controlling hundreds of thousands of troops, and he is a real feudal official.

Although before parting, the emperor instructed him many times to focus on defense, supplemented by a slow offensive, focusing on reconciling the internal contradictions of the Western Army, listening to the opinions of the generals of the Western Army, and not to attack blindly, and not to have a large army duel. But Zhang Jun still didn't think so, the Jin army in Shaanxi was only 30,000, and the troops were scarce; However, the Western Army numbered as many as 200,000 and was absolutely overwhelming.

At this moment, Xiangyang was attacked, Yangzhou was attacked, the situation was unprecedentedly tense, at this moment he led 200,000 Western troops, how could he be a watcher, looking at the Xiangfan generation, the area south of the Yangtze River, fighting continuously, and doing nothing. (To be continued......)