Two days later, the news that Lin Feng had begun to train a large number of village soldiers reached Kaifeng City, Tokyo, and immediately became the last step in the face of the negotiations that led to the negotiation of the alliance of the Later Zhou, Southern Han, and Wuyue.

Later Zhou Emperor Guo Wei no longer quarreled with the two small states for local interests, basically agreed to the initial conditions of the two countries, and immediately finalized the overall attack strategy:

This winter will take the lead in launching an offensive on the front line of the Huai River.

Once the war started, the Southern Han Dynasty and Wu Yue had to devote all their forces to attack at the same time, one south and one north, jointly attack Wenzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places, once again block the way out in the southwest of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then choose the direction of attack by themselves, and be sure to drag the garrisons to the south and east of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After the victory of the Northern Front, Hou Zhou would ensure that the Southern Han would officially possess Wenzhou and Zhangzhou, and that Wu Yue would have Fuzhou and Quanzhou, as well as any territory they captured. At the same time, the Southern Han and Wu Yue formally submitted the letter of vassalage to the Later Zhou, paid tribute every year, and allowed the Later Zhou to garrison a small number of troops.

Wu Yue, Xiangguo, Wu Cheng, who had been in the Zhou Dynasty for more than a month after the envoy, and Pan Chongche, the governor of the Southern Han Dynasty, hurriedly absconded.

On the one hand, Guo Chongwei was appointed as the envoy to the west, leading 30,000 forbidden troops to rush to Jinzhou to lead the siege war, and on the other hand, the five jiedu envoys of Huguo, Baoyi, Heyi, Yicheng, and Zhangde around the fallen area were each sent 10,000 elites to rush to Jinzhou within ten days.

This posture is clearly to "settle the inside before the outside", and is ready to pull out the trouble of Jinzhou's henchmen with all his might!

An order to shake the earth! At noon on July 1, all the new 80,000 troops arrived and joined the 30,000 troops under the city of Jinju.

Guo Chongwei didn't talk nonsense, and called all the leading generals for an emergency military meeting, and Wang Yan, the former Jinzhou assassin who had become gray-haired, stood up and told the details of their many attacks on Jinzhou from the beginning.

Of course, at the beginning, there were leading generals from all over the country who were quite unconvinced. However, with Wang Yan's calm and bleak statement, many people couldn't help but open their mouths wide, just this small Jinzhou city, nearly 30,000 Zhou soldiers have been killed and disabled in battle, and even now, the Zhou soldiers have not entered the city in a real sense!

Guo Chongwei patted the handle of the handsome seat, attracted everyone's attention, and said in a deep voice: "The saint told me before leaving, if you can't take Jinzhou City, you will come to see me in cloth clothes!" Everyone understands this sentence for themselves! Let me emphasize that there is only one purpose in this battle, to take Jinju City! Let's all share our thoughts! ”

The generals looked at each other, and they had nothing to say for a while, Wang Yan is also an old soldier, and basically all the methods that can be used have been used, but they have not been effective!

At this time, Han Lingkun, the deputy general of the Cizhou Army, raised his hand and said in a loud voice: "Lord Guo, the last general thinks that the war did not go well in the past, mainly because the increase in troops was filled with oil, and the speed was not reached, and now, there is no shortcut to attack the city, only to give full play to the numerical advantage of the army, to convince people, and to eat the other party!" It is recommended to build a mountain of earth under the city walls! ”

There was no one in the military tent, and the old, not-so-old generals all looked at this young man who had not grown his hair. Mt. Tsuchizu? This trick is too stupid, let's sweep the world in the future, when did you have such a cheating time?

Guo Chongwei groaned slightly, and commanded: "From tomorrow, the whole army will concentrate on the eastern city of Jinju, and the four earth mountains will advance at the same time!" In three days, I will stand on the head of Jinju Fortress! ”

Early in the morning of July 2, the Houzhou battalion, which covered the sky and the earth, was like a awakened beast, and all 110,000 soldiers were dispatched to form four major armies under the eastern city.

Accompanied by the sound of the earth-shattering marching drums, the large shields nearly one person high were stacked in two rows, forming a row of tall shield walls, which slowly pushed towards the position of the city wall. The soldiers defending the city of the Northern Han Dynasty, who had been waiting for a long time, shot several rounds of arrows at Luxia, but when they saw that there was no effect, they all stopped and waited for the enemy's rear.

When the shield was halfway to the range of an arrow, there was a sudden sound of drums, and all four shield walls separated by the same distance stopped, and then they never moved again.

On the city wall, Liu Chengjun, the envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Yang Ye, who had been promoted to deputy general in the line of fire, observed the movements under the city together.

"It's not good, the enemy wants to attack the city with dirt mountains!" Yang Ye saw that his strength was good, and he saw the rows of Houzhou soldiers carrying dirt bags behind the shield array early, and shouted lightly.

After three consecutive months of bloody battles, Liu Chengjun has become much more resolute, frowned and observed for a while, and sneered: "Do you want to bite hard with people? Straighten the horse over! ”

Yang Ye's eyes moved, and he whispered a few words in Liu Chengjun's ear, Liu Chengjun twisted his brows fiercely, and nodded in approval.

Under the city wall, each formation of 35,000 people was divided into two groups, 5,000 people used knives, guns, shovels and axes, to dig on the spot not far from the rear, and the remaining 30,000 people were divided into several columns, and continued to transport large bags and small bags of soil to the shield array, and a mountain of earth rose high to the wall at a speed visible to the naked eye, and walked towards the city wall ants.

I don't know who invented it first, the soldiers began to take off their military uniforms, as a burden for the soil, take off the general's trousers, and wrap the two trouser legs, which has also become a good tool for the soil; And the soldiers cut the spare tents and bedding, and brought them all to contain the earth. After the crooked tricks invented by these soldiers were spread in the four military formations, the four dirt mountains were like a worm that grew up rapidly, and the speed at which it grew up and lengthened was obviously faster and faster.

However, from noon on the 2nd, construction began on the Jinju city wall, which was facing each dirt mountain, but instead of earth, they used bricks, stones, and wood.

These Northern Han soldiers who defended the city transported the bricks and wooden beams of the demolished houses to the head of the city, and began to quickly build "temporary buildings" with a mix of civil and engineering on the outer half of the city wall. Each of these strange houses is more than fifty meters long, far from being comparable to the dirt mountain that is less than ten meters wide.

When Guo Chongwei heard the report, he turned out of the tent, stared at the city for a long time, his expression became even more grim, and he only said the words "day and night" and turned back to the tent.

From July 3, the fifth-story earthen tower of the Jinju city wall, which was progressing faster, began to be filled with Northern Han soldiers, shooting arrows from the firing positions on the west, north, and east sides and diagonally upwards to the earth mountain.

Under the rain of arrows, the Later Zhou army had to divide a large number of soldiers to protect the four sides of the earth mountain with a big shield, and the soldiers who transported the soil had to be dressed neatly before they dared to carry the earth, and the speed of the earth mountain's advance slowed down suddenly.

Seeing this situation, Guo Chongwei found Han Lingkun and asked him to lead a group of people to urgently build the "super siege vehicle" they had invented before.

At noon on the 4th of July, the earth mountain finally met the city wall. The four "super siege vehicles" that were urgently produced were pushed up the earth mountain by a large number of Hou Zhou soldiers shouting, and the sharp tops slammed into the earth towers, and some Hou Zhou dead soldiers began to sacrifice their lives to attack Jinju City under the cover of the thick wood of the siege vehicles, and the tragic battle began.

Late at night on the 4th of July, a large number of Later Zhou soldiers from the four earthen mountains attacked the city wall in pairs and began to attack the outer city wall. At this time, Yang Ye's ruthlessness was really revealed, from the south and north of the defensive formation, there were Northern Han dead soldiers with torches desperately rushed into the tulou, the tulou soaked in vegetable oil in advance all set on fire, in the scorching sun has already been dried under the dry wooden block instantly ignited a fire several meters high, the Houzhou soldiers who attacked the city had to stop the offensive, the first time to hide in the middle of the tulou.

The fire burned for half the night, and was not extinguished until it was light, and the Hou Zhou soldiers in the middle of the tulou found that there were high walls on the walls at the south and north ends, cutting them off in the middle of the entire city wall.

When Guo Chongwei walked up to the captured city wall escorted by a group of personal guards, everything in front of him made him speechless for a long time.

The newly built city walls on both sides are as high as five meters, and the side facing them is full of ashlars, and the arrows can only leave a white spot when they shoot up, and the Northern Han soldiers standing at the top are all in armor, revealing only a pair of silent and terrifying eyes, staring at the enemy army on the city head expressionlessly;

Inside the city wall and outside the urn city, the Northern Han soldiers had already dug a deep ditch five meters deep and more than ten meters wide, with countless spikes inserted in the ditch, and the bottom layer was covered with messy wood, indicating that they were ready to pierce and burn the Hou Zhou soldiers who dared to attack the city; Outside these deep pits, there is an open space that has been dismantled into a blank space, and beyond the distance of half an arrow, it is still built into a lone city wall more than six meters high, leaving only more than one meter of space at the north and south ends, which is equivalent to encircling the urn city and the city gate.

In a word, although Hou Zhou captured a section of the eastern city wall and the entire urn city, it faced a more difficult situation.

Seeing such a scene, Guo Chongwei, who was speechless for a long time, couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Jinzhou City is really a difficult bone to gnaw!" ”