On the wall of Zhigu Wall, the soldiers and civilians were silent, and all the people were staring wide-eyed, staring at the Song army from the east and flooding the rivers and rivers. Many people were pale and sweaty, and the fear and torment in their hearts could be seen from the trembling bodies.

With so many Song troops, is this going to take Hebei in one fell swoop?

More than 100 Han troops on the walled wall, they are just cannon fodder during the Mongolian iron cavalry siege war, and the elite Han troops are in Yanjing City, Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion. As for them, these stragglers, the local people, are selectively forgotten.

"Shi Er, what should I do? Will the two Yanai be poisoned? ”

On the wall, Shi Da, the family of Shifu, was full of trembling and solemnity.

He is not afraid of the Song army, the old master Shi Tianni has been killed in battle, leaving these two sons young and no heirs, in case he loses his life with the Song army, Shi Tianni will be the last door.

"Big... Big brother, Shen... Hold your breath and see! Also... Xu Liangyanei didn't... Didn't meet Song Jun! ”

Shi Er frowned, looking at Song Jun in the distance outside the city, his face was pale and he stammered.

"Do you want a stone thrower to hit ......?"

The officer came up, and before he finished speaking, he was choked back by Shi Da's cold words.

"The Song army is at least tens of thousands, and the artillery is hundreds or thousands, how can you fight? If you fight, I'm afraid the whole city will be buried with you! Save it! ”

"There are too few of us, what are we going to fight with Song Jun? Let's wait and see, and then wait for the two Yanai to come back! ”

Shi Er followed and spoke, categorically.

"Generals, don't fight hard! The folks of Zhigu Village, but there are not a few left! ”

Several white-haired old men on the wall pleaded with the officers and Shi Da and others.

"Got it! Rest assured! ”

The two brothers glanced at the officer and said impatiently.

The officer frowned and did not speak.

Although he was assigned by Yanjing, the Song army was powerful, and he didn't want to offend the Shi family, but wanted to live.

Not to mention, he is also an outcast and no one cares.

The Song army is full of iron armor, countless artillery carriages, the artillery is secluded, the knights are fierce and fierce, the quiver is full of arrows, they are full of wind and frost, the cavalry comes from the dragon in a row, the foot and pawn step points are the same, the black pressure is pressed a piece, straight from the official road in the south and north of the city, encountering the wheat field outside the city, automatically shrinking into a long line, all the way to the west. Even though the wheat in the field had been harvested, not a single man from the tens of thousands of troops entered the fields by the roadside.

A warship slowed down, and on the deck of the warship, Shi Quan shouted loudly against the wall of Zhigu Village.

"Shi Da, Shi Er, Tulugan, I'm in the Song Army now, everything is fine! Do not act in vain, lest you lose your lives! ”

"Shi Da, Shi Er, we're fine, Song Jun won't do anything to us. Don't go against Song Jun! Wait for us to come back! ”

Shi Yi was the same, shouting loudly to the wall.

"It's Yanai! What to do? ”

Shi Da saw it clearly and was immediately dumbfounded.

"Tulugan, what should I do? Do you want to save the two Yanai? ”

Shi Er stared at the warships on the bank of the river, and he was also at a loss.

"What to save? The Song army is a steamship, how can it catch up? Didn't Yanai say it, let us not move, otherwise it will hurt Yanai! Let's obey the military orders of the yameni! ”

This time, the officer Tulugan did not hesitate and categorically refused.

A hundred or so rabble rushed into the army of 100,000 tigers and wolves to save people, what are you kidding? Even if he dares, who wants to be stupid enough to go with him to death?

The warship left with thick smoke, and Brother Shi was helpless, looked at the Song army heading west, and began to judge his contents.

"I'm scared to look at, what a genius of Thanigan!"

Shi Da sweated profusely, and said from the bottom of his heart.

"Fortunately, it wasn't an attack on Zhigu Village!"

Some Han Jun said it with palpitations.

The Song army did not stop, and it took a long time to disappear from the field of vision of the Mongolian army at the head of the city. The soldiers and civilians, you look at me, I look at you, all of them look relieved and sweaty.

"If you fight again, the people of Zhigu Village will die!"

The gray-haired old man followed in horror.

"If you could ride on a steamboat, I don't know what it would be like?"

Officer Tulugan, suddenly.

The Song army's land and water array rolled northward, and on the deck of the warship, Meng Heng, the commander of the Northern Expedition, looked at the endless plains on both sides of the strait, and frowned.

The south of the Juma River, including the south of Yanmen Pass in the east of the river to the west, was once the homeland of the Great Song Dynasty, and they broke away from the embrace of the Great Song Dynasty and were trampled by the iron hooves of the north, which has been a hundred years.

The Northern Song Dynasty used troops to the north many times to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, but they all fell short. The Jurchens rose up, defeated the Liao State, and occupied most of the sixteen states of Yanyun. In order to get back "Yanjing", the Northern Song Dynasty lost 200,000 taels of silver and silk each and 1 million taels of silk per year, and lost 1 million taels of "tax money on behalf of Beijing" before "buying" the dilapidated Yanjing empty city from the hands of the Jin State.

In a flash in the pan, Yanjing City was recovered, and the Jurchens invaded the south in a big way, and Jingkang was ashamed, and even Tokyo City was lost, not to mention the distant Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.

With the rise of Mongolia, the Jin people were driven back south of the Yellow River, and Yanjing became the Daxing Mansion of Mongolia again, and began to implement civil administration last year.

Yanjing City is the first fortress to be conquered in the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, and he Meng Heng must also take it. It is not only the foundation of the world, but also the wish of more than 70 million people in the Great Song Dynasty.

Eyes swept to the people on both sides of the strait, the faces were yellow and thin, coarse cloth was short, patches were patched one after another, many of them looked numb, like beggars, and bare-ass children without clothes were everywhere in the fields.

Meng Heng was in a heavy mood and retracted his gaze sadly.

The Mongolian iron cavalry is in the world, killing vertically and horizontally, and the people of the two rivers do not survive, and the people's livelihood is withering like this, which is really shocking.

"Fourth brother, Your Majesty doesn't really want to seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in one fell swoop, right?"

Seeing that Meng Heng was in a heavy mood, his third brother, Meng Jing, the former commander of the Northern Expedition, quietly diverted the topic on the side.

The people's livelihood is difficult, and this is the case in the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention the rule of the Great Mongolian State, which only knows how to burn, kill and loot.

Meng Heng's mouth was very strict, and he didn't know until now that this time the Great Song Dynasty Wangshi went north, and he was going to seize Yanjing City, and the battle would be decided.

His Majesty called this "decapitation operation". Yanjing is the head of Hebei, and once Yanjing is captured, it means that Hebei has no head. First Yanjing, then Taiyuan, and then in the clouds. The gates of the two rivers are closed, and the next thing is the Central Plains. ”

Wiping a handful of sweat from his head, Meng Heng glanced at the north and smiled slightly.

More than 100,000 elite soldiers, as well as 10,000 sailors, transported grain and grass from Dengzhou, Shandong, and the sea ships were endless, and there were tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the follow-up......

Coupled with Shandong's Du Gao's troops entering the Central Plains, eyeing the Song army, the Song army is determined to win, this will be a national war that can be recorded in history.

"Your Majesty really dares to think! If he recovers the Central Plains, won't he have a deeper misunderstanding with the princess of the Jin Kingdom? ”

Meng Jing shook his head, his eyes full of shock.

Crossing the Hebei Plain, the cavalry of the West Road crossed the Yellow River and went to Yanjing with the warships, and the foot soldiers arrived in two or three days. and Du Gao, who is also in Shandong, and Yu Yu in the west, look at each other from north to south, east and west.

Three ways to go together, this kind of bold idea, only His Majesty can come up with it.

"Your Majesty not only dares to think, but also dares to do! He only has the Great Song Dynasty in his heart, and there is no princess of the Jin Kingdom. ”

Meng Hui was full of emotion, he looked at the vast Youyan land, and unconsciously felt heavy in his heart.

"As the commander of this Northern Expedition, I am trembling and walking on thin ice. If I can't take Yanjing City, I can only raise my head to see the king! ”

The sixteen states of Yanyun, with dangerous terrain and easy to defend and difficult to attack, have always been the most important northern defense line of the Central Plains Dynasty. If the Song people have the sixteen states of Yanyun, they can rebuild the Great Wall defense system built in the previous dynasties, and with the strong economic strength and population advantage of the Great Song Dynasty, it will be even more difficult for the northern nomads to enter the Central Plains.

And for him, Meng Hui, if he can't take Yanjing City, he will only have one death to repay Jun's kindness.

"Fourth brother, fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son. You and my brother are in the army together, don't worry. The four of us brothers are all the main generals of the Northern Expedition, which is an unprecedented event! ”

Meng Jing's face was flushed, and he looked a little high-spirited.

In this Northern Expedition, four of the ten brothers of their Meng family came, the third Meng Jing, the fourth Meng Hui, the seventh Meng Zhang, and the tenth Meng Ying. If you can seize the opportunity and take Yanjing City, you will definitely make immortal achievements, and it is possible to be crowned the king and worship the prime minister.

"Whether it's a grand event, or a common enemy, you have to take Yanjing City. If you can't take Yanjing City, everything you say is in vain, and it has disappointed Your Majesty's high expectations. ”

Meng Heng's expression became serious and worried.

In addition to the four brothers of the Meng family, the emperor also transferred Cao Youwan from the northwest border to lead 20,000 cavalry to assist. I heard that another fierce general, Lu Wende, was also leading his troops to Hebei to rendezvous.

40,000 northwest cavalry, plus 10,000 cavalry led by Lao Shi Meng Ying, a total of 50,000 elite cavalry.

In addition, the emperor's Fa Xiao and Tian Yi, the chief instructor of firearms in Jinling Jiangwutang, served as the commander of the firearms in the army, and Li Tang, the emperor's personal guard, served as the commander of the artillery.

It was clear that the emperor wanted a complete victory and restored the Lianghe and Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures in one fell swoop.

If he can't take Yanjing City again, he can only find a piece of tofu and kill him.

"Capturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, that is a great cause that even Song Taizu and Song Taizong have not completed, once it is realized in the hands of you and my brother, it will really be no regrets in this life."

Meng Jing sighed unconsciously.

"Not bad! Restore the sixteen states of Yanyun, leave a name in history, and have no regrets in this life! That's how a big husband should be! ”

Meng Hui said excitedly, and he was full of pride.

As long as he thought of the success of the Northern Expedition, his blood boiled and he couldn't help himself.

"Fourth brother, Your Majesty sent Uncle Guo to come this time, what does this mean?"

Meng Jing looked at Zhou Ping, who was standing on the deck in front of him, and said curiously.

"Third brother, you don't know yet, Your Majesty has appointed Uncle Guo as the envoy of Hebei Road. As long as our Great Song Dynasty Emperor takes Yanjing City, he will implement the rule of the people in Hebei and restore the people's livelihood in Hebei as soon as possible. ”

Meng Jing's words made Meng Jing stunned for a while and blurted out.

"Your Majesty, this is a must-win!"

Hebei has sent envoys, and it seems that it will not be possible to seize Yan Kyoto.

"Your Majesty is eloquent, 300,000 troops, east and west are advancing together, if you really can't restore the two rivers, our brothers don't want to go back. I don't have the face to go back! ”

Meng Heng said generously and with great ambition.

"General, Your Majesty is strategizing, the officers and men of the three armies are using their lives, Yanjing City, our army will definitely be able to take it!"

Liu Quan, the general of the sailor next to him, was full of ambition, and suddenly picked up the conversation.

"General, you can't take Yanjing, you cut off my Wei Jinyu's head!"

Wei Jinyu, the commander of the artillery, also said excitedly.

"Liu Quan, Wei Jinyu, you are right. Yanjing City, we have it! ”

Meng Heng's heart was surging, and his mood suddenly brightened.

If you want to make meritorious contributions and seal the wolf, or Yuanjia Caocao and rush to the north, it is in this trembling.

"General, General Lu Wende led 20,000 cavalry to help, and it will be there soon!"

When the scout came to report, Meng Heng let out a long sullen breath, and put down the last boulder in his heart.

The armies are in place, there are these arrogant generals, these tigers and wolves, hundreds of thousands of troops, countless artillery and cavalry, even if it is more than 100,000 Mongolian troops in Yanjing City, what is he worried about?