Kong Yanzhou's plan was shocked by all four places, once the Liang River was released, all the outside of the city would be submerged, all the workshops would be suspended, the fertile land would be destroyed, and it would be difficult to recover for many years. The Song army was blocked, but it would also be a fatal blow to the economy of Liaoyang Province, and forcing the fort to force it would also cause dissatisfaction among the people who had suffered heavy losses, so it was extremely difficult to order the implementation of this decision.

"My lord, the lower officials think that this plan is feasible, if the Song army breaks the embankment and releases water, it will cause us great damage. Compared with our preparations, the losses are much smaller, and we can block the enemy from outside, and the two powers will harm each other, whichever is less, although there are losses, it is much better than letting Liaoyang fall into the hands of the enemy. Wanyan Tuhesu first showed his supportive attitude.

"My lord, the Song army is close at hand, and Zhao Er's army will attack the city as soon as it arrives, and there is not much time left for us to prepare, and my lord must make plans in advance." The Liaoyang defense envoy Jiagu Wuli said that he had fought many battles with the Song army, and of course he knew the power of artillery, and thought that he was not an opponent.

Jiagu Wuli made up for sixty years, and was also a young man in the army, successively followed Wanyan Lou to attack Liao, crusaded against Gao Yongchang, followed Taizu to destroy Linhuang Mansion, and also took Dading Mansion with Xian, and helped Zongwang to defeat Song Dynasty and force Yanjing Mansion to surrender. But he also experienced the defeat of Wuma Mountain, the destruction of Yanjing City, etc., which can be described as a wonderful life and rich combat experience. Because his family lived in troubled waters, and he was tired of the battle between the DPRK and China, he asked to return to his hometown to guard Liaoyang, and he wanted to enjoy his old age in peace, but he didn't expect to put on the armor again to fight on the battlefield.

"This ...... Liaoyang is my land of great money and food, once it is completely flooded, I am afraid that the saint will blame it. Wan Yanyong was still a little hesitant, and he ordered the city to be flooded even if the city was saved. But I can't afford to be guilty of it.

"My lord, the matter of the Holy Lord's peace with the Southern Dynasty has already been decided, and according to Zuo Xiang, Zhao Er wants to take Liaoyang as the boundary. In such a form, I think the Holy One will agree. At that time, Liaoyang will become the front line, and war may break out at any time, and things outside the city will be destroyed sooner or later. Li Qiong was anxious, this was the only way to solve the problem at the moment, and quickly persuaded him to make up his mind.

"My lord, the Song army will be here soon. We don't have much time left, if we wait for the Song army to come to the city, ten thousand cannons will be fired in unison. The city is destroyed, it is too late to regret, if His Majesty surrenders, the lower officials are willing to bear it! Wanyan suddenly got up and saluted. One Beijing stayed behind to take charge of the military and government of one place. Equivalent to the Earth Emperor, Wan Yan Yong could not implement it without nodding, he understood that this was the only chance that Liaoyang City could keep, so he could only stand up and ask again.

"My lord, the lower officials and others are willing to advance and retreat with the adults!" Li Qiong, Kong Yanzhou, Jiagu Wuli and other civil and military officers all gave a salute.

"Okay, let's use the water as a soldier to flood the city to resist the enemy, and if something happens, the commander will bear it." Wan Yanyong gritted his teeth and said. "Suddenly, you will immediately go out of the list so that residents outside the city can enter the city, and Chibi Qingye can't leave anything usable for the Song army; Kong Yanzhou: You immediately survey the dam site. Select the location of the embankment, plan and arrange, and the commander will grant you full powers; Li Qiong, Jiagu Wuli supplement, you two are responsible for recruiting and mobilizing people, soldiers, and the dam site will be selected to start construction immediately, and it must be completed within four days, just wait for the Song army to immediately break the embankment and release water. ”

"The lower officials and others must obey the commander's order!" All the generals saluted in unison and immediately went out of the palace to act according to their assignments......

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"What does Wan Yanyong want to do?" Ma Wei paced in the tent and muttered.

The day before yesterday, the scouts reported that as soon as the morning dawned, the Jin army set up obstacles in the river, drove the residents of the villages and fortresses outside the city to move to the city, and then set fire to nothing. However, the city sent a large number of Ding Zhuang to start besieging the city and digging trenches, piling up the excavated soil into an earthen fortress at a hundred steps outside the city. At first, Ma Wei didn't take it to heart, thinking that the Jin army was a red cliff and a clear field, and besieging the city and digging trenches and fortifications was just to consolidate the city defense.

But then the situation became more and more wrong, Liaoyang City sent Ding Zhuang as many as 100,000 people, not only people, but also a large number of soldiers, day and night to rush to work, the bottom of the earthen fortress built is as wide as three zhang, and it is reinforced with huge trees and stones, no matter how you look at it, it does not look like an obstacle to intercept the Song army, but like another city wall. By the third day, the barrier had been built more than two zhang high, almost as high as the city wall, and it was still increasing.

The camp of Guanshishan also came to report, saying that the Jin army had retreated ten miles overnight and set up camp, as if they were shrinking the city defenses, and they had followed up and confronted each other three miles apart. Last night, he quietly retreated ten miles again, and camped five miles away from the city. Liu Bao and the others were very puzzled by the inexplicable actions of the Jin army, and suspected that the Jurchens were trying to lure them into going deep alone, so they asked Ma Wei whether to advance or retreat.

Abnormality is a demon. None of the boundary trenches built by the Jin State with huge manpower and material resources could stop the footsteps of the Song army, and the example of Jinzhou City being bombarded into ruins by artillery is in front of us. But Wan Yan Yong still built a camp and had a heavy army to defend the city, so that not only did they have no depth of defense, but they were also digging their own graves, trapping themselves in the city, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to.

Ma Wei couldn't figure out what Yan Yong wanted to do, so he didn't dare to advance, so he ordered Liu Bao to send scouts to find out the situation and then march in turn, especially to pay attention to whether there were enemy brigades lurking on the two wings, wanting to engage in tricks such as night attacks. At the same time, he ordered the marines and sailors to clear the obstacles laid by the Jin army in the Liang River, approach Liaoyang City, clear the perimeter, and wait for the emperor to arrive and attack the city together, and take Liaoyang City in one fell swoop......

Two days Zhao Ta took a boat into the Liang River, Ma Wei led the crowd to welcome out of the thirty miles, the monarchs and ministers sat down after seeing the salute, and after a few words of greeting, the topic naturally shifted to the current war. Ma Wei talked about the strange behavior of the Jin army in the past few days, and now the camp outside the city has been built three zhang high with the efforts of more than 100,000 people, and the Jin army outside the city has retreated again and again, and yesterday they retreated into the city without even dismantling the camp tent.

"Oh, where are the sailors and cavalry now?" Zhao Ta asked immediately after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, the naval warships have penetrated into the Liang River, less than five miles away from the city, and the infantry cavalry army occupies the Jin army camp, three miles away from the city, just wait for Your Majesty to arrive, and the whole army will attack the city together." Ma Wei said.

"Zhao Lian, where did they go?" Zhao Ta turned his face and asked.

"Your Majesty, there was a report yesterday that Gao Shuai had passed the pass of Guanshi Mountain yesterday, and according to the time and distance, it should be less than twenty miles away from the city." Zhao Lian replied.

"Quickly send someone to give an order, so that Gao Zhong stopped advancing, and the Tiger General and the Leopard Wing Army quickly returned to the vicinity of Bush Mountain, and if necessary, discarded the baggage they carried, and there was no mistake; The flotilla immediately stopped moving forward, and Ma Wei ordered the advance convoy to retreat to the vicinity of the mouth of the three rivers to join us, without delay. Zhao Ta's face changed when he heard this, and he pointed to the sand table of Liaoyang Mansion and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Although Zhao Lian and Ma Wei didn't know why, they didn't dare to ask again and immediately send separate orders. Shaoqing and the two returned, only to see the emperor frowning and grinding in the cabin, everyone knew that he had something difficult in his heart, no one dared to say anything, and watched the emperor turn around with big eyes.

"Your Majesty, why did you suddenly withdraw your troops when you have already arrived at the city?" A group of people looked at the emperor, their eyes were dizzy, and Zhao Yong couldn't help but step forward and ask.

"Alas, Wan Yanyong, this kid seems to be loyal, but his heart is so vicious!" Zhao Ta raised his eyes to look at Zhao Yong, then at everyone, and said such an inexplicable sentence.

"Your Majesty, how do you say this?" Zhao Yong asked suspiciously, but secretly said in his heart that no one is as ruthless as your majesty, tens of thousands of people in Jinzhou City were killed and injured under artillery fire, it is not your idea, but it will not be said if you are killed.

"You see, the topography of Liaoyang City, from its southeast Baishi Mountain to the northwest Hunhe River, the terrain from high to low, from the middle mountains, low mountains, high hills, low hills, the layers are distinct, according to this, the formation of the southeast high, the northwest of the same direction inclined to descend the terrain, and between the two rivers to form a low-lying area." Zhao Ta beckoned everyone to return to the sand table and pointed and said.

"Your Majesty, so what, we have already invaded the center of Liaoyang, and there is no danger except for the city, why is this hasty retreat?" Ma Wei understood, and everyone understood, but they couldn't figure out what it had to do with the retreat.

"What do you think Yan Yong built outside the city is for?" Zhao Ta asked rhetorically.

"Of course, it is to prevent our army from approaching the city and trying to block our attack with trenches." Ma Wei said without hesitation, and all the generals also nodded, because the recent battles have been around this kind of terrain.

"Alas, how did I teach you idiots!" Zhao Ta was a little angry and rewarded everyone with a 'violent shudder' and said, "Then it's clearly a damn dam to protect the city from flooding." ”

"His Majesty means that Yan Yong wants to dig up the embankment of the Liang River and release water to flood the city!" Zhao Yong reacted immediately when he heard this, and said in surprise, he didn't care to rub his head that was knocked by the emperor.

"This plan is really ruthless enough, once our army is in the city, he suddenly digs the embankment, and the river is surging down and can't avoid it, I'm afraid that more than 100,000 of us will become fish and turtles in the river!" Zhao Lian was also shocked and said with a sigh.

"Yes, the levee has been dug up, the river has plummeted, and our warships will run aground, and then the Jin army will only need to drive a small boat to clean up our entire fleet." Ma Wei put down his hand rubbing his head and said, "No, I have to go and urge it myself, so that the fleet can quickly retreat." With that, he ran out of the cabin and jumped on a clipper......

"Fortunately, His Majesty saw Yan Yong's trick and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army, otherwise our hundreds of thousands of troops would be wiped out under Liaoyang City, and several years of hard work would be ruined in this surging water!" When the Jin army found that the Song army under the city was lured to withdraw suddenly and the rear army did not advance, he realized that his plan had been discovered, Wan Yan Yong immediately ordered someone to dig the embankment, the water of the Liang River rolled down, the water level suddenly decreased by more than a zhang, and the water potential slowed down slightly after more than ten miles of flooding. (To be continued......)