This night, Wanyan evacuated and lost sleep.

He has not read Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sima Fa, Wei Xuanzi, or Wujing, but he has more than ten years of combat experience, from Liaodong, to Hebei, Henan, and Huaihe, he has already honed him to become a qualified general.

At this moment, looking at Yangzhou City, Wanyan was evacuating and constantly calculating, constantly thinking and weighing.

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And this night, Zhao Pu's mood was not calm.

The Jin army approached the city, and after the initial chaos, the whole city began to stabilize.

Walking on the street, Zhao Pu could smell a faint smell of blood at will.

Human nature is selfish, and at the moment when the Jin army is under the city, the ugliness of human nature is undoubtedly exposed. There was a stampede, a robbery, and a storming of the gates, and everything was a mess.

Some ministers even wanted to escape for their lives outside the city by virtue of their official positions. But what ushered in was a ruthless crossbow arrow, which was all told by Zhao Pu in advance, if anyone dared to break through the city gate, it would not matter if he was killed. This once again shows that when Xiucai meets soldiers, it is unreasonable to say, and those who have knives in troubled times are still more powerful than those without knives.

There are 200,000 people in the city of Yangzhou, and once the city is broken, it will be 200,000 cattle and sheep to be slaughtered. For the sake of the people of Yangzhou, Zhao Pu must persevere, he can't run away, and if he runs away, he will be stinking for 10,000 years, and he can't afford to lose this person.

But how to hold on is a big question.

There were only 5,000 soldiers in the city, and 25,000 were stationed outside the city; There are also close to 30,000 auxiliaries, and the combat effectiveness is low, but it is still enough to defend the city. If the Jin army is attacking the city, he is not afraid, he can introduce the Jin army into the city, carry out street battles, relying on the invincible characteristics of the mandarin duck array in close combat, Zhao Pu has enough confidence to kill the seven thousand Jin army in Yangzhou.

However, will the generals of the Jin Army understand this?

Zhao Pu shook his head, the generals of the Jin Army are not stupid, as long as they don't have a cramp in their heads, they won't make such a mistake.

Now the Jin army will only surround the point to send reinforcements, destroy King Qin's army step by step, or plunder other cities. Once the encirclement point is reinforced, relying on the Song army's field combat ability, almost how many come and how many die; Relying on the sharpness of the cavalry, you can eliminate reinforcements step by step, capture supplies, and feed the war with battle.

If the Jin army plundered the prefectures and counties near Yangzhou, it would also be a catastrophe, and if it was rescued, it would inevitably fall into a field battle, and if it was not rescued, it would inevitably lose people's hearts.

What a tangled question.

Zhao Pu sighed and said: "Last time, the battle column that annihilated the cavalry of the Five Thousand Golden Army in one fell swoop is destined to be impossible to stage again!" How to fight the enemy this time! ”

Under the light, Zhao Pu lost sleep again.

"Your Majesty, but I'm worried about the Jin Army's attack!" Wang Wuyue said, "Yangzhou has been repaired, the city wall is solid, and the rolling wood and stones are placed on the city wall, and it will be difficult for the Jin army to break through Yangzhou!" Your Majesty, sit back and relax! ”

Zhao Pu said: "I'm not worried about the Jin army breaking through Yangzhou, I'm afraid that the Jin army will not attack Yangzhou, once the encirclement point is reinforced, or it will be harassed everywhere, or it will simply run away, it will be troublesome." It is easy to hold Yangzhou, but the difficult thing is to defeat this Jin army, or even completely eliminate it! ”

Offense is the best defense, and this feeling of passive defense makes Zhao Pu extremely unhappy in his heart, but he is helpless.

The Bazi Army has been trained for a period of time, and its combat effectiveness has been improved, but it still lacks combat effectiveness, and it is more than enough to defend and not enough to attack. Once in the field, the victory rate is less than three layers, and it is too dangerous to let the Bazi Army go to risk a battle. Once the whole army is destroyed, or the losses are huge, then he will inevitably be in danger.

In later generations, why did Song Gaozong eliminate the domain, deprive the generals of their powers, and even kill Yue Fei. It is because Song Gaozong was a literati that he did not directly control military power and did not have a trustworthy lineage army. can only rely on the name of righteousness to cut off the military power of each domain town, otherwise once the mutiny, there will be death. Although the cutting of the feudal domain stabilized the situation and eliminated the possibility of mutiny, the price was heavy, and the self-abandonment of martial arts weakened the national defense force to the extreme, and even shed the infamy of "the rabbit is not dead, the dog has been cooked".

In the future, he wants to stabilize the situation and avoid self-defeat, and the only way out is to build a strong central army.

With a strong central army, it can deter other feudal towns, make those generals jealous and dare not act rashly, and at the same time can stabilize the situation.

It's just that the current situation forces him to fight.

Zhao Pu is entangled!

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The next day, the expected siege did not happen.

This disappointed Zhao Pu, and the Jin army chose to focus on the Bazi Army camp outside the city.

The iron cavalry was crisscrossing the horizontal, all kinds of siege equipment, taking turns on the field, shouting and killing, the horn whining endlessly, and the battle began. Under the cover of the city-breaking vehicles, groups of Jin soldiers began to attack the camp of the Bazi Army, filling in the trenches and pushing to a fence, as if the camp was about to be broken.

At this time, the eight-character army, which had been calm, began to counterattack.

Under the projectile of the stone thrower, a fierce fire oil wheel of an altar was smashed out, and the siege vehicle was immediately set on fire, like a huge torch. At this time, the eight-character army began to counterattack and kill, and in the distance was covered by bows and crossbows, shooting; Nearby, rows of javelins were thrown, and behind the javelins, spears were struck, and axe men covered the attack, and shield bearers responded to the left and right.

After a rush and killing, the Jin army suffered many casualties.

At this time, the cavalry of the Jin army was dispatched, trying to break the infantry, and at this time, huge shield bearers appeared, tilted the big shields on the ground, formed barricades, and then hid behind the shields to attack.

At this time, the cavalry of the Jin Army also learned wisely, and did not enter the shield array, but threw out one by one skin bags, which were filled with fire oil, and threw them at the shield array, and then the rockets were fired, and suddenly the fire oil burned, and the shield array became a flame array, burning countless people and burning the wounded Song army.

In such a desperate situation, if it were an ordinary Song army, it would have collapsed and fled backwards, but the eight-character army did not have such rules.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Bazi Army, the soldiers have no way to advance or retreat, only to move forward to kill the enemy, or to be killed by the enemy, and there is no other way to go. The soldiers of the Bazi Army, who were in despair, ignored the flames burning on their bodies, pounced on the cavalry of the Jin Army, and chose to die together, killing one to be enough, killing two to earn one.

At this moment, Wan Yan, who was watching the battle from afar, was evacuated and shocked, is this still the group of Song troops who are like sheep, it is simply a group of tigers and wolves.

There is no formation in the world that cannot be cracked, but there is a strong will that cannot be cracked.

The shield array was cracked, and the cavalry lost its proud speed. One by one, the mandarin duck array appeared, the wolf attacked, a sweep, can knock a cavalry off the horse, the cavalry after the fall has no time to resist, seven or eight weapons pierced, chopped, smashed, either stabbed into a bloody hole, or smashed into a pulp.

Even if there were some cavalry, they dodged the sweep of the wolf, and they did not dodge the swords and legs.

And at this moment of the battle, the cavalry of the Jin Army who invaded the camp was devastated, and Wanyan withdrew and naturally could not sit idly by and command the cavalry to attack. Began to attack the camp from the other direction, intending to surround Wei to save Zhao, but unfortunately just approached the camp, one by one explosives bags were thrown out, as the explosives bags exploded in the air, iron nails, iron thistles and so on flew all over the sky, impacting the cavalry.

At this time, the cavalry of the Jin Army was also prepared for protection, and the ears of the war horses were plugged, so they could not hear the explosion, and naturally they would not panic; And the war horse's eyes have been shielded, and they are not afraid of hurting their eyes. At the moment of the explosion of the explosive pack, all the cavalry were lying on their horses in unison, reducing the area of trauma.

At this time, the cavalry of the Jin Army, compared with the previous time, has improved its protection a lot, in order to prevent the threat of explosives packs.

Under this all-round protection, the threat of explosives is greatly reduced, as long as it is not the luck of the extreme, just hit by the explosives bag, it will not leave much damage - after all, the black powder of this era, the purity of sulfur is low, the production process of gunpowder is backward, and the lethality is limited, far from comparable to TNT explosives.

Compared with the last time when the cavalry of the Jin Army was embarrassed and suffered huge casualties, the losses this time were much smaller.

The cavalry of the Jin Army is also constantly improving, constantly repairing past mistakes.

And in the Song camp, one by one dry firewood was thrown out, lit with flames on it, and attacked the cavalry of the Jin army.

The cavalry of the Jin army looked a little disdainful, but just dialed the firewood with their spears, so as not to catch fire on their bodies and the firewood fell to the ground one after another. "Bang bang!" Explosions came from the ground, and the horse's leg was blown off, or the horse's belly was cut open by the explosion of thistles. In short, the horses fell out of business, and the cavalry also died with it.

This is a half-finished mine.

Landmines are a means of restraining cavalry, but unfortunately Zhao Pu's wisdom is limited, and he can't make mines for the time being, so he can only bury the explosives in a shallow place underground, and then use a stone-throwing machine to throw firewood, detonate the explosive package, form an explosive force, blow off the horse's legs, the horse's belly, and kill the cavalry.

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