Zhao Ta held a telescope and watched the fierce battle outside the south gate of Huining City. It seems that the Jurchens really put a lot of effort into the defense of the city, and they built a defensive position with a depth of 100 steps 200 steps in front of the city. Its main body is a rammed earth wall with a width of up to two zhang at intervals of thirty to forty paces, reinforced with logs and stones, but less than one zhang in height. This was clearly a lesson learned from the previous failures of the boundary trenches, and Tongguò increased the thickness of the wall and lowered the height of the wall, so that the wall could withstand direct artillery fire, and reduced the chance of hitting, which the cavalry could not cross.

The Jin army also used a solid rammed earth wall as the foundation to divide it into independent spaces, covered with logs and earth as a covering, which could not only be used as a place for troops and reserve supplies, but also for soldiers to leave a passage to support each other, which was simply a fortification that could be built and hidden. At this distance, the stone throwers placed at the head of the city could provide them with support, and even if the Song army broke through, the Jin army at the head of the city could still condescendingly inflict damage on the enemy with bows and arrows, stone throwers, and artillery.

In addition, the Jin army dug four or five zhang wide to build a wall, and the deep ditch with a depth of three zhang has also become an insurmountable obstacle. The enemy took the fortified area in front of the city, and fifty steps in front of the city was a wider moat, and if you wanted to pass through the guò level, you had to withstand the blows of the enemy troops on the city wall. After crossing the river, the city has already prepared rolling wood and stones, golden soup and oil, as long as it reaches the city, it will be poured down. And the city gate has an urn city, even if the city gate is blown up, there is an inner city gate waiting inside, but there are several obstacles in the inner city and the palace city.

The focus of the two sides was now on the battle for fortifications outside the city, and although the staggered and dense low walls they had built limited the movement of the soldiers, they also greatly reduced the damage of artillery fire to the defenders. And the soldiers in the Jin army were also very stubborn in their resistance. Not wanting the other cities to panic when they heard the cannons, the Song army, which continued to advance despite casualties, fired a dense rain of arrows. At the same time, the trench and bridge cars were destroyed with a stone thrower hidden in the depths to stop the advance of the Song army.

Watching the attacking soldiers continue to fall. Zhao ordered to intensify artillery strikes to destroy the enemy's stone throwers, slow down the advance, build improvised fortifications through guò, dig communication trenches and approach forward, and at the same time use machine guns to suppress the Jin archers hiding behind low walls, so as to reduce the casualties of attacking soldiers exposed to the open battlefield.

Zhao Ta understood that Huining City was built in imitation of Bianjing City, with a large area and a large population, and a certain amount of materials in reserve. It also has a complete defense system, and the additional facilities will become stronger. And even if Jingkangnian Bianjing City did not have these, the Jurchens failed to fall after several attacks, and Muhan and Hanli were unable to capture Bianjing, most of which was thanks to the blessings of Daxian Guo Jing and Zhao Ji's father and son and those surrenderers, otherwise the Jin State would not have been able to occupy Bianjing so easily.

But Zhao Ta knew that there was no Great Immortal Guo Jing in Huining City at this time, and there was no father and son of the best emperor Zhao Ji. However, if the monarchs and ministers of the Jin State can always maintain a strong will to resist, the soldiers can make full use of the existing fortifications and buildings in the city to gradually fight with the Song army, and finally the Song army will pay extremely heavy casualties.

"Zhao Xiao. Come here! "Zhao Ta doesn't want to fight hard, but if he wants to defeat the enemy with minimal casualties, he must first destroy the enemy's will to resist. And the most striking thing is the artillery.

"Your Majesty, what do you command?" Zhao Xiao, who was standing behind the emperor, immediately responded.

"Will our ammunition stockpiles be able to support two major campaigns?" Zhao asked.

"陛xià. No problem at all. Zhao Xiao thought for a while, he knew that what the emperor said must be ten thousand cannons. The ammunition consumed will also be counted in kilograms.

"Okay, concentrate all the artillery brigades, and give you a day to destroy all the enemy fortifications on the outer line south of the city." Zhao Ta pointed to the barrier in front of the city and said solemnly.

"Yes, my subordinates obey!" Zhao Xiao replied without hesitation.

"Zhao Yong, continue to put pressure on the enemy, don't let the enemy army idle, arrange more sharpshooters, and fight the enemy when they show their heads, so that they always feel the threat of death, and at the same time maintain a good rhythm." Zhao Ta said to Zhao Yong beside him again.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhao Yong nodded and replied......

The rumbling sound of cannons lasted for a long time, and it could be heard clearly in the palace ten miles away from the battlefield, the night was deep, the hoarfrost on the ground was miserable white under the moonlight, and the candlelight in the emperor's study was not extinguished, and the sound of conversation could be faintly heard.

"Xue Hai, how is the shape in the city?" Zhao Ta took a sip of tea and asked.

"Your Majesty, in the past few days, we have continued to attack the city, and we have leveled the fortress outside the city with artillery fire, which makes the soldiers and civilians in the city panic. However, Wan Yan came to the city every day to boost morale and appease the people, so there was no major commotion. "Xue Hai entered the city long before the siege, and after receiving the order, he sneaked out of the city at night to meet the emperor.

"Well, I thought that Wan Yan Kang would make the country miserable for the people, complaining from top to bottom, and the slightest loss of pressure would cause turmoil, but I didn't expect him to be able to act like this at this critical moment and stabilize people's hearts, it seems that I still underestimated him." Zhao Ta touched his chin and said with some surprise.

"Your Majesty, not everyone advocates resisting to the end, and Yan Zongxiong, the left minister of the Jin Kingdom, has been asking for the resumption of peace talks one after another for several days, and it is obvious that he still has hope for peace talks." Xue Hai said.

"What is the attitude of the vultures?" Zhao Tan nodded and asked again.

"According to our eyeliner report, after Wushu learned that Yan Yanying was killed in battle, and the army he led was almost wiped out, he vomited blood that night, his condition worsened, and he did not go to the court for many days. Xue Hai replied.

"After all, Wushu is the mainstay of the Jin Kingdom, and after completing the backbone of Yan Yan, he will not be in chaos if he lives for one day!" Zhao Ta sighed, raised his eyes to look at Xue Hai and said.

"Your Majesty, you mean to get rid of him!" Xue Hai said softly.

"Wushu is sick and not stupid, he must know that there are our eyes in the city, and I don't know how many people want to kill him in this troubled world, the Taishi Mansion must be heavily guarded, and he rarely goes out of the mansion, it is too difficult to kill him." Zhao Ta shook his head lightly.

"His Majesty's expectation is good, there is an elite team of 1,000 people stationed around his mansion, and there are 100 people accompanying him when he goes out, and there are people along the way to open the way, it is difficult to get close to his side, but if he can find out his residence, he can definitely be killed if he chooses an elite team to sneak into his mansion and storm his residence." Xue Hai thought for a while and said.

"It's not a good deal, it's not worth wasting a few of our elites for a dying man." Zhao Ta shook his head, he knew very well that once the assassination was discovered, it would be difficult to get out under the siege of heavy troops, which could be said to be a suicide attack, which was not in line with his combat principles, so he refused immediately.

"Your Majesty, then shall we let him go?" Xue Hai said a little unwillingly.

"No, we're mad at him!" Zhao Ta said with a smile, in fact, the biggest desire in his heart is to be able to use the blade of the vulture, this wish even surpasses that of Wanyan Ling, but now I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve, and it may be considered that he has achieved the wish of two lifetimes by killing him.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates are stupid, please give me instructions." Xue Hai was silent for a moment, still unable to understand the essentials, and asked the emperor for advice.

"You are so ......" Zhao Ta asked Xue Hai to lean closer to him and said, Xue Hai nodded frequently, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates admire me very much, after these few moves, Wushu has to return to the West with one life." After the award, Xue Hai praised with a convincing face.

"Hehe, I'm just beating the water dogs, even if I succeed, I can't win the battle!" Zhao Ta smiled a little embarrassedly, bullying a dying person This thing is not virtuous and smoking......

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The battle between the Song and Jin armies under the city of Huining lasted for ten days, but the two veterans who relied on him made Wan Yan a little disappointed. Wanyan Zongxiong, who had made many great contributions in the battle to destroy Liao in the early years, became panicked after his eldest son Ah Lin died in Huanglongfu, and at first he could still swear to avenge his son on the surface, but after the Song army besieged the city, he instantly fell completely, and became a cowardly and misleading general, and repeatedly wrote to ask for peace at any cost.

And when those Jin army 'angry youths' broke into the post house and attacked and killed the Song envoys, the peace talks broke down, and Wanyan Zongxiong strongly advocated killing those Jin soldiers and compensating the Song Dynasty for its losses, in order to continue the peace talks. After the Song army attacked the city on a large scale, the northern city that Zong Xiong was in charge of was not the main direction of attack of the Song army, but he still did not dare to launch an active attack, and even watched the Song army fill most of the trenches. The war had begun, and he was still dreaming of foolish peace, which aroused the displeasure of the Jin soldiers, who were so excited that they made a noise in the whole city, and complained to the emperor and demanded that Zongxiong be replaced.

Taifu Wanyan Zongmin has also been degenerated, and his Cheng dù is quite strict. When the battle began, the southern direction of the city under his responsibility was attacked by the Song army with the fiercest attack, and the fortress in front of the city was flattened by artillery fire for a day and night. Zong Min, who was watching the battle from the city tower, was so frightened that he lost his words, his face was pale, and he also suffered from deep Song phobia. When the Song army launched a cold-gun battle to attack and kill the generals at the head of the city, he was so frightened that he did not dare to enter the city. Whenever Yan Yan went to the city to offer condolences, the generals couldn't stop complaining to the emperor about the incompetence of the generals.

And the emperor is not so perfect, and he has also done some ridiculous things, and has come up with some strange strategies to resist the enemy, first ingeniously agreeing to engage in the so-called strategy of breaking the embankment, and after the failure of the embankment, he will discuss the peace plan, and during the peace negotiation, he is timid and afraid of war and wants to leave, and as a result, he almost delayed the fighter plane of the Beijing division to defend the war. Of course, his new strategies and tactics are not limited to this, and he still continues to practice his strategy with the lives of his soldiers and the safety of his soldiers...... (To be continued......)