Ma Wei is very depressed these days, he thought that this landing with the emperor behind enemy lines would experience a major battle, so that the marines would also show their faces, but after the landing in Yingzhou, they only had a few battles with some small units of the Jin army. In fact, it is suspected of putting gold on your face in battle, but it is more appropriate to say that there is a group fight, often as soon as the gunfire goes out on your side, then you will immediately slip away, and you can't catch it quickly.

Seeing that Pingzhou had been taken and the battle on Yanjing's side had ended, the emperor said that the reinforcements of the Jin State Brigade had not appeared. Looking at those companions in the past commanding thousands of troops and horses to attack the city and seize the land one by one, Ma Wei really didn't feel good in his heart, his deputy commander of the navy looked very beautiful, but the gold content was not as good as a brigade rate of the generals, and there was no military merit in the army. But who let himself not stay with the emperor and go to the marines!

After the Khitan occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, Yuguan rapidly declined from the military status of the past, and there was little rest for two hundred years. Ma Wei knew very well that his Marine Corps lacked horses and heavy weapons, and that it was a light infantry without the cover of fleet artillery, and could not conduct large-scale field battles and confrontations with the Jin Army.

Although rigorous training and frequent exercises can enhance the combat effectiveness and experience of troops, no matter how well trained a soldier who has not been on the battlefield can become a real soldier. It was precisely because Ma Wei understood the congenital deficiencies of his troops that he knew that once the emperor's prophecy came true, there would be no perfect defense system and strong fortifications. The Marine Brigade is unable to block the attack of the Jin Army's brigade, and even if it does, it will pay a huge price. So Ma Wei had a little thought in his heart. However, he was not at all sloppy in the work of resting and recuperating defensive measures, and he did not say anything about going into battle in person. In order to be in a hurry, even 'mobilize' the local people to join in.

As a result of intense construction, all the passes controlled by the Marine Corps have completed their combat readiness work, and not only are all kinds of fortifications complete, but they have also hoarded a large amount of combat materials. But now everyone regrets it a little, the expected big war has not happened, and the things that have been brought by Bala can't be consumed, and they have to find a way to send them back...

"The Jin army of 40,000 reinforcements set off from Dading and Liaodong and arrived on the same day, and it is suspected that they want to come to the aid from Yuguan. Your unit immediately strengthened reconnaissance, properly allocated troops, prepared to defend against the enemy, and dragged the enemy army to buy time for the army to rest and recuperate and annihilate the enemy! Ma Wei looked at the emperor's order and finally waited for them.

"Order the scout battalion to go out of Yuguan for a hundred miles to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and send a team every two hours, and report back immediately; ordered the 1st Brigade to hand over the defense of Yingzhou to the local volunteers, and the whole brigade will send troops to Yuguan tomorrow; The 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade were ordered to enter combat readiness, report back immediately if they found the enemy, and prevent the Jin Army from sneaking up on the pass! Ma Wei was excited. Immediately entered the state, and according to the time when the order was issued, he estimated the position of the enemy and gave several orders in a row. And he left Yingzhou for Yuguan first.

The enemy's reinforcements amounted to 40,000, while his three brigades plus his direct subordinate team were less than 10,000, and the strength was at an absolute disadvantage. There were only more than 2,000 people from the Second Brigade guarding Yuguan. And Ma Wei saw from the order that the armies attacking Yanjing had been fighting continuously for more than a month, and they were already sleepy and tired, and they had to turn to rest and recuperate, and they would not send reinforcements for the time being. And the best thing about it is the word 'drag'. Clearly told him not to annihilate the enemy, but to hold the pass and attract the enemy there. As for what other actions the emperor has behind him, it's not for Ma Wei to guess through...

Two days later, a troop of 10,000 troops from the enemy's front army arrived outside the city of Yuguan, and they saw that the dilapidated Yuguan had been renovated and renovated, and the wall had suddenly risen to two zhang from the wall that was only more than one zhang high, and the wall was full of flags and densely packed sergeants, and they could not help but wonder in their hearts. Because the reputation of the Song army for being good at fighting is far and wide, and the team in the city is very different from the military uniforms and banners of the Song army in the past, the Jin army, which does not know the strength of the defenders, did not dare to attack, and retreated to Wuli Xiazhai to wait for the arrival of the Chinese army.

In fact, what the enemy saw was only Ma Wei's suspicious strategy, and he had great ability to increase the height of the city wall several miles in a month, and the only thing that was really built was the frontal wall that withstood the enemy's attack, and the rest of the places were piled up with sandbags, and then used the cold weather of this month to be poured and frozen with water, but the solidity was not inferior to the stone masonry. The defenders in the city were only 5,000, and most of the people in the city wore military uniforms and used the costumes of the Song Dynasty naval army to fool them.

But what should come will come eventually. The troops of the Jin army arrived one after another, and the commander Wanyan Alu sneered, and he raised troops with Taizu when he was not crowned, and joined the army to fight. Because of his complex and wise nature, he is good at overcoming the crowd with less, and often takes the lead as a vanguard, and has a special merit in destroying Liao and attacking Song Li, and is promoted to the capital of Dading Mansion to defend one side, and it is precisely because of this that he was selected by Zong Han as the commander of the reinforcements. Although the Yuguan in front of the block has been repaired, but the city wall is only two zhang high, there is no ditch outside, surrounded by a moat, in the eyes of Aru who has conquered the city and plundered countless lands, Yuguan is no different from a paper paste clay sculpture, and it is easy to capture it.

In the face of the menacing Jin army, Ma Wei contracted his defenses, abandoned the periphery, and concentrated the main force in the pass. The reason why he chose to retreat to the city was because of the huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, and he had no cavalry, so he basically had no chance of winning in a field battle. Second, the terrain of Yuguan is dangerous, and they can rely on the city defense to wait for work. More importantly, he knew that the reinforcements would not arrive in the near future, so he could only rely on the city defense to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible to give the emperor time for his next strategy.

And Aru Bu also knew that Yuguan was far away from the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, and the main force of the Song army was fighting fiercely in Yanjing, and it was impossible to send a large number of reinforcements to rescue Yuguan in a short time, so he let go of his hands and feet and attacked the city on a large scale. The Jin army quickly lined up and swarmed up, and before the general attack, Aru played a set of psychological warfare, but saw that the Jin army was disheveled one by one, holding colorful banners and shouting into the city. This may have been inspired by the Song army that attacked Bianjing and sent 'divine soldiers' to fight, thinking that the Song people believed in ghosts and gods, and they might collapse instantly when they saw their 'demon soldiers'. As soon as they tossed like this, the defenders of the city were first stunned, and then burst into laughter, talking about who can compare to their own emperor by pretending to be a god!

There was a burst of guns in the city, and the 'demon soldiers' who did it fell in large numbers, and the rest scattered in a hurry, which added a little joke to the Song army in the city and relieved the nervousness. Seeing that this plan did not work, Aru reorganized his team and began to attack the city, using shield bearers as cover, archers pressing forward the Song army at the head of the city while releasing arrows, and behind them were assault teams with ladders. However, there was a deathly silence at the head of Yuguan City, and just when the Jin army was surprised, a short trumpet sounded, and dense bullets shot out from the battlements and arrow holes in the city, knocking down a hundred and ten people at once!

In order to quickly break through the barrier, he divided the main force into three groups and attacked the city in turn, trying to drag down the defenders' defenses. This kind of 'wheel warfare' looks stupid, but it can give full play to the superiority of troops, and it is a fatigue tactic that uses more strikes and fewer strikes. The attack of the Jin army continued day and night, the defenders were tired of coping, and their morale was gradually weakening, Ma Wei adopted a-for-tat strategy of rotational warfare, and the two brigades took turns to defend the defense, while he sat at the head of the city to command, eating and living there, putting on a posture of coexistence and death. 'There will be a heart of death, and there is no greed for life', Ma Wei's move greatly encouraged his subordinates, and he resisted the repeated attacks of the Jin army and did not let the Jin army approach the city.

Aru saw that it was hard to make up for it, so he began to play with a technical and technical method. Relying on their outnumbered numbers, they shot at the defenders of the city with strong bows and crossbows, a way to suppress the enemy's defensive strength by increasing the density of their shots. Seeing this, Ma Wei smiled, no matter how fast and far your archers shoot, can they compare to the musket? He immediately ordered to erect a war tent on the city to block the thrown arrows to reduce the damage, and at the same time transferred the machine guns of the machine gun battalions of the two brigades to the city to increase the firepower, and a 'sudden attack' scattered the archers of the Jin army!

The siege method to increase the firepower failed, but Arubu was not discouraged, he still had a trick! In ancient times, sieges often built earth hills in order to shoot the enemy from a high position, and they could also use the 'mountain' as a cover to mobilize troops. Yuan Shao used this method to build dozens of earthen mountains to besiege Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu. Aru Bu didn't know where he learned this hand, so he concocted it in the same way and ordered the soldiers to build a dirt mountain in front of the pass.

Ma Wei didn't want to give Jin Jun this chance, the mountain was built, and he couldn't knock him down even if he used artillery, and the power of the musket would be greatly reduced. There were originally two enemy towers used for lookout in the city pass, although they had fallen into disrepair for a long time, but the high platform of the building was still there, and the craftsmen in Ma Wei's army used wood to build a wooden building on the high platform, increased the height, and built temporary fortifications on it, so that it exceeded the height of the earth mountain outside the pass.

This trick of 'commanding height with high' made the Jin army outside the pass miserable, because the method of building the soil mountain was cumulative construction, and to increase the height of the soil mountain, it was necessary not only to expand the foundation, but also to consolidate the main body of the soil mountain. As long as Ma Wei added a layer of wooden planks and scaffolding to the enemy's tower, Arubu would have to fill in the entire dirt mountain, which obviously outweighed the loss, and the dirt and mountain plan was also aborted.

"Although I am bound upstairs to the sky, I should wear the ground to get my children!" Aru is by no means an idle person who retreats when he sees difficulties, and if his strategy fails, he has another plan, and yells at the city. Ma Wei listened to the smacking taste, this is full of pride, but there is no IQ, the one opposite is confused, or full of confidence, where is there to tell the enemy his strategy, isn't this death... (To be continued......)