'Knock, knock...' The artillery bombardment of the Song army has continued all night and has no sign of stopping, Wanyan Zongfu, who was sitting in the Yuanhe Palace, listened to the sound of cannons outside the hall, and the siege cannon would make a shocking sound every half a quarter of an hour, and then the whole palace seemed to be shaking, and the dust like snowflakes fell on the dome.

"Deputy marshal, the Song army has bombarded the southwest corner of the city with heavy artillery, and cracks have appeared in the city wall..."The defense of the palace city made Wan Yan Mengshi rush into the hall and said, but seeing Sosuke sitting quietly in the hall with a long knife in his hand, he felt a chill in his neck, and his voice weakened.

"What are you panicking about, the soldiers will block the water and come to Tutun, the city has not collapsed, and the Song army has not yet attacked and panicked, shaking the hearts of the army!" Sosuke raised his eyes and looked at Yan Mengshi, intentionally or unintentionally bringing out the sound of the long knife.

"The deputy marshal atoned for his sins!" Looking at the deputy marshal who showed murderous intentions, Wanyan Mengshi hurriedly bowed his head and pleaded guilty.

"You immediately mobilize craftsmen to repair the city wall, arrange knife carts under the city in case the Song army breaks the city here, and repair the horizontal walls on the city wall as soon as possible!" Sosuke said in a deep voice.

"Deputy marshal, the Song army's artillery fire is fierce, and it is difficult for the soldiers to go to the city... The next official obeys the order! "The Qingliang Hall on fire is now like a huge torch shining brightly on the city wall, and the fire cannot be extinguished at all by the wind, and the soldiers in the upper city have become the live targets of the Song army.

After seeing Yan Mengshi go out, Zongfu sighed in his heart, the good days have gradually worn out the enterprising spirit of the soldiers, and the Song army has not yet attacked the city, and the generals are in chaos. This Wanyan Mengshi is also a brother of the same clan, and the young man joined the army and followed Taizu to attack the city and plunder the land. Countless cities were destroyed, and he gradually became a senior officer who commanded 10,000 people from a small soldier. But now she has also been hollowed out by the spirits Meiji, and the gold, silver and jewelry are dazzling. I just want to live a stable life guarding the good land mansion, and I don't have the pride of charging into battle back then, and I have the blood of fighting the world.

"Deputy marshal, the Song army will launch a general attack tomorrow, and the reinforcements are delayed, I'm afraid we can only rely on ourselves!" Just as Zongfu sighed, Wanyan Xiyin entered the hall with a body of gunsmoke, and he shook the dust on his robe and said.

"Ceres, I hear the constant sound of cannons in the north of the city. How's it going? Sosuke poured a bowl of wine and pushed it to Wanyan Xiyin and said.

"Alas!" Wanyan Xiyin sighed, took a drink from the wine bowl and said, "The situation is not very good, the Song army took advantage of the weakness of the many merchants in the northwest of the city and the inability of the stone thrower to advance, and advanced the artillery to a place less than two hundred steps away from the city, destroying all the city towers and wooden buildings, and demolishing all the corners and pits in front of the city, and is taking advantage of the night to fill in the moats." The lieutenant commander heard not only the sound of cannons, but also the explosions of their gunpowder breaking barriers. ”

"Ceres, do you think we can hold Yanjing City?" Sosuke suddenly sighed and asked.

"Vice Marshal, how can you be so depressed. There are still tens of thousands of soldiers in our city, hoarding millions of stone of grain and grass, even if the Song army besieges the city for several months, it can hold out. Besides, the Wushu army is coming to support in the starry night, and the outside of the gate will also send reinforcements when they get the information. As long as we hold for ten days, reinforcements from all walks of life will arrive and we can gather and annihilate the Song army. Capture Zhao Er alive! Wanyan Xiyin was stunned and said, at the critical moment of defending the city, the coach had the idea of retreating, how to fight the battle? He hurriedly puffed up Sosuke's air.

"Ceres, Zhao Er's city is too deep, and the use of soldiers is also interlocking, which time did we not fall into his calculations in this battle, now that Wushu is leading heavy troops, he can rush to Yanjing at any time He doesn't know how to do it, but he still wants to take Yanjing City, which shows that there is a countermeasure, and I am more worried that Wushu will not be able to go to Yanjing City at all!" Sosuke listened to the increasingly violent explosions and said abruptly.

"Huh?! Is it also a plan? Wanyan Xiyin exclaimed in surprise and fell into silence, thinking about what Sosuke said was good.

From the sudden agreement between the two countries and the intention of their southern tour to hide the Northern Expedition, and then using the Huqiu to transfer troops to the border river, using the conflict of the border people and the rectification in the negotiation to provoke a war, attracting the defenders of Nanjing to leave Beijing and rush back and forth, Zhao Er used the naval army to occupy Pingzhou while the rear was empty, swept through the northern part of Yanjing, and cut off the connection with the Guanwai. And the Song army in the south also invaded the territory at the same time, and transferred the Zongfu Department to annihilate most of the troops, and every step was calculated into the bones, so that you had to be led by his nose, and now the Song army, which had been silent for many days, suddenly stormed Yanjing City, which could not help but make people doubt its purpose.

"I suspect that the Song army's sudden attack on the city is to transfer Wushu to help, at that time, as long as the Song Army's West Route Army blocks Juyong Pass, all the armies to which we belong to Youyan will fall into the land of projectiles within a radius of 100 miles from Yanjing, and as long as they go all out to capture Yanjing City, Wushu will have no place to stand even if they return, at that time, there will be no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, how can they defeat the Song army's hundreds of thousands of troops!" Sosuke said with a gloomy face.

"Hearing you say this, I'm afraid Zhao Er's ambition is more than that!" Wanyan Xiyin's face suddenly turned pale, and he suddenly thought of something again!

"Zhao Er has any other plans besides Youyan?" This time it was Sosuke's turn to be surprised, and he suddenly stood up and asked.

"Now Zhao Er dispatched a total of more than 200,000 troops from the three routes, most of which are forbidden troops, we fought with them a few years ago, and he will only use tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at most, although this hinders his identity at the time, but he can win more with less, Taizu, Zong Han, and Han are all under his hands!" Wanyan Xiyin stroked his stump and said leisurely, "Now he is attacking Yanjing City must want to conquer the city before the arrival of the Wushu reinforcements, and then try his best to deal with the Wushu Department, once he succeeds, at this time, Hui Ning must have learned of the Youyan crisis and sent troops to come, then he will definitely start to encircle and annihilate the reinforcements again!" ”

"His target is Dading Mansion!" After listening to Yan Xiyin's astonishing remarks, Sosuke's finger paused on the map and said.

"Yes, if Huining learns that Youyan is urgent, he will definitely transfer troops from Dading Mansion to reinforce nearby, and Liaodong is the root of our clan, and there is a traitor A Shu on his side, even if he sends troops, he will not send a large army. The Song Army's Western Route Army has always been a feint force, and now that Dading Mansion is empty, how could Zhao Er let go of this opportunity, when the time comes, under the attack of the two roads, I am afraid that the reinforcements will be more auspicious! Wanyan Xiyin said in a trembling voice.

He understood that this was not only a matter of losing land, but also that the Jin State suddenly lost nearly 200,000 troops, and the loss of population could not be recovered for a while, and the loss of a large area of rich land in the Central Plains would also reduce its national strength, and the Jin State would quickly degenerate from a powerful country to a small regional country, and would be under the attack of the Great Song Dynasty at any time.

"Then this battle can be said to be related to the life and death of my Dajin!" Zong Fu Chang said with a sigh.

"There is no hope for reinforcements, we can only rely on ourselves!" Wanyan Xiyin nodded heavily.

'Boom...' There was a sudden dull loud noise outside the hall, and the two looked at each other and looked out the window, but the entire palace city was shrouded in thick smoke and dust at the moment, and they couldn't see it clearly.

"Newspaper... Report to the deputy marshal and the supervising army, the northwest corner of the city wall collapsed! Just as the two were about to go out to check, a soldier ran in in a panic and said.

"Make every effort to block it, even if you use people to fill it, you must also plug the gap, and you must not let the Song army enter the city!" Sosuke heard the news and shouted hoarsely.

If Zhao Ta heard Wanyan Xiyin's heart at this moment, he would definitely give him a thumbs up and praise him again and again, and regard him as a bosom friend, but there are not so many ifs, even if the two of them cherish each other, they can only become enemies, and what is even more regrettable is that what Wanyan Xiyin thinks can't be known to the Golden Emperor, and now there is no chance...

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As the saying goes: the skin is thicker than the bend of the city wall! Although this is an exaggeration, it also shows that the corners of the city wall are the thickest places in the city, but the intersection of the two city walls here must be the most stressed, and the joints will inevitably appear in the construction process, and this place will become the weakest place. Zhao Yong saw that the siege artillery was helpless against the heavy city wall, so he used the corner of the city as a breakthrough and ordered the continuous bombardment of siege artillery and rapid-fire guns, hoping to open a gap from now on.

"The walls are falling!" The first to notice the collapse of the city wall were not the artillerymen who were acting as gods in the smoke, nor the dragoons who were waiting to attack in the rear, but the soldiers of the baggage brigade who were using artillery bombardment to open a way for cover and clear the obstacles in front of the city.

"Immediately tell the artillery to stop shelling, and the rest immediately seize the breakthrough!" When Lou Qian, the commander of the Tiger General's Baggage Brigade, discovered the situation, he immediately ordered. At this moment, Lou Qian was commanding the breaking of obstacles less than a hundred steps away from the city wall, as a veteran of the Beifu period, he knew that the Dao fighter plane was fleeting in a blink of an eye, and he was no stranger to the siege of the city, so he lost one of his arms in Fengzhou City, so he immediately ordered the officers and soldiers of the engineer battalion to take the lead in the attack.

The moat in front of them was not an insurmountable obstacle in the eyes of the sappers, and they made full use of the explosives bags in their hands to blow up the slopes on both sides of the trench, and immediately a collaborator appeared on the ice that was enough to climb. Lou Qian led a group of engineers to rush up almost braving the cannonballs falling from the back row, and the collapsed rammed earth in front of them slid down to form a slope at the corner of the city, just covering the foothills and wooden stakes in front of the city, and they rushed up on this natural passageway.

At this time, the Jin army also swarmed up to plug the gap under Zongfu's strict order, and the two armies collided in an instant, and the short soldiers fought together. The baggage brigade was not equipped with heavy weapons except for the escort team, and the sappers only had a single spear, but there were a lot of bits and pieces on their bodies, such as shovels for digging the earth, axes for chopping stakes, and iron cones for smashing doors, which were standard equipment, and now they have become sharp weapons for killing the enemy.

It was almost impossible to see the other party's face in the dust and smoke in the sky, but it was enough to know that the other party was the enemy, and after a fierce battle, the sappers with rudimentary weapons actually repelled the Jin army, and the sappers who could still stand in the gap were less than thirty people left... (To be continued......)