The Great Wall is really coming!
Like a drop from the sky, it appeared two to three thousand steps in front of Wanyan Zonghan... exactly the same as the Great Wall he saw in Yanyun Land!
The walls are all khaki-colored, with pits and pits on the surface. You can tell at a glance that they are in disrepair, and they are still standing there after countless years of wind and rain.
Oh, Wanyan Zonghan and the others have never seen the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The Great Wall they have seen was handed down from the Qin and Han Dynasties. From a distance, it looks similar to the long wall that Zhao Kai had people build with rice bags.
Precisely because it looked very much like the Great Wall left over from the Qin and Han dynasties, Wanyan Xiebao, who had always been very imaginative, thought that "the Great Wall is coming"... It was impossible for him to come by himself. Zhao Kai recited some kind of "City Moving Curse" to summon him.
So when Wanyan Xiebao accompanied his father to see the "Great Wall", he started to make suggestions again: "Dad, why did this Great Wall come here? It looks very evil... .How about we go back!"
"Go back?" Wanyan Zonghan almost fell off his horse because of his son's anger. He had already been defeated by Zhao Kai once. If he was defeated again, would he still have the nerve to face Zhao Kai in the future?
"Where are we going back?" Wanyan Zonghan asked through gritted teeth.
"Go back to Dengfeng and Mi County first," Wanyan Xiebao said. "I estimate that Zhao Kai will definitely order the Song army from Songshan and Songzhu Mountains to attack our camp. We just have a head-on attack and give them a good beating. Later, he withdrew to Songzhou. He also ordered Lou Shi to go north to Sanshan Floating Bridge and Tu Hesu to dig up the Yellow River dam, flooding Kaifeng Mansion!
After the Yellow River is diverted, it will surely divert the Huai River into the sea, and create an inaccessible yellow flood zone between the Sanshan Floating Bridge and the Huai River. In this way, all the land east of the Yellow Flood Area and north of the Huaihe River can be included in our dynasty. With such a large piece of fertile land, plus the land of Hebei and Yanyun, are we Jurchens afraid that we will not have a good life? "
"snort!"
Wanyan Xiebao's suggestion was of course met with a cold snort from Wanyan Zonghan.
What dissatisfied Wanyan Zonghan wasn't that his son's plan was bad - in fact, it was a pretty solid plan, and he could almost certainly win with a small victory. And they can also firmly occupy the sacred land of Jingdong East Road and Jingdong East Road... For the older generation of female warriors who have been fighting for more than ten years and finally made a colorful career, Xiao Xiao Returning victorious, occupying a sacred land for a long time, and returning home to enjoy peace and happiness are undoubtedly the best endings.
But the question is what Wanyan Xianbao shouldn’t have thought!
He is still young!
How can you have such an idea of "retirement care"?
Wanyan Zonghan raised his riding whip, pointed at the "Great Wall" two to three thousand steps away, and said calmly: "That wall must have been there a long time ago! Judging from its dilapidated appearance, it must have been at least hundreds of years... ..You actually thought it was new. You are so confused and stupid. You have disappointed your father very much!"
This one is obviously new!
Wanyan Xianbaozhen is a little bit tearful, he is a little fat...oh, very fat! But he is not confused, let alone careless. On the contrary, he has a very careful temperament and will check the terrain carefully every time he goes to the battlefield. How could it be possible to miss a city wall that was ten or twenty miles long?
This wall is obviously new!
This thing is weird inside and out. How can we blindly start a war without knowing it clearly?
"Dad, this wall is really new..." Wanyan Xiebao still wanted to explain, but how could Zong Han allow him to disrupt the morale of the army? With a flick of his hand, he whipped up a horsewhip and hit Xie Bao on the arm. Although he was protected by armor and did not wait, it chilled Xie Bao's heart. He did not dare to speak anymore and had to shrink aside.
Wanyan Zonghan asked his subordinates Wanyan Pujianu and Yelu Mawu: "What? Can we capture that city wall?"
"Yes!" Wanyan Pu's slave gave an affirmative answer, "Deputy Marshal, this city is not difficult to defeat!"
He is a well-known Jurchen veteran, a figure of Aguda's generation. He is nearly sixty years old this year, but he is still strong and healthy. He is not willing to go home to take care of himself in old age. He just loves to fight on the battlefield.
Although he also felt that the wall in front of him was new... he was not as sure as Xian Bao. As you get older, it's normal for you to easily remember things wrongly.
And he didn't think it was a big deal.
Because this city does not look tall or strong, there are not even crenellations on the city walls, but some temporary combat boards and shields are placed there. The trench in front of the city wall was newly dug, and it seems that it has not been completed yet... There are still people digging there, and it is estimated that it will not be very wide or deep.
As for the sheep and horse wall, the door guard wall, the horse face, the parapet wall and other bits and pieces, there is nothing! The walls looked clean, with only forks, gantry boards and shields, but no cannons or crossbows.
In addition, this city wall is also very long, at least twenty miles long, and it is a straight line...it is twenty miles from one end to the other!
It is difficult to deploy troops!
Twenty miles is not very close to the cavalry. If you were an infantryman and had to wear armor and carry a heavy load, walking for two hours would not be considered too slow.
And on the battlefield, how could you tolerate such slow movements?
Unless the defenders are extremely large and can be deployed tightly across the entire line, this city will not be difficult to break!
Yelu Wuma then said: "Deputy Marshal, give your subordinates half a day to prepare ladders and earthen bags. Tonight, I will lead my troops to attack at night. I will surely break the city!"
"Pu's slave, can we still fight at night?" Wanyan Zonghan asked Wanyan Pu's slave again.
"Yes!" the old man said with a smile, "It's good to attack at night. It's more difficult for the Song army to dispatch at night, and it's even harder to know the true strength of our army!
In addition, you can also order Yin Shu to launch an attack from the east... A two-line night attack is difficult to win even if you think about it! "
"Okay!" Wanyan Zonghan said with a proud look on his face, "That's it, let's give the Song people a two-front attack!
Pass the order...Today we will fight to break the city at night, and my heavenly soldiers of Dayin will knock down the support of the Song people's Great Wall! "
...
"What a miracle! In just a few hours, we built this long wall from the ground up... Hahaha, now that we have this wonderful way to build forts, do we still need to be afraid of gold thieves in the future? "
Zhao Kai, standing on the "meter wall", was as proud as Wanyan Zonghan at this moment!
Sandbags can build forts!
Such a simple golden finger, you never thought of it in the past?
Building a fort with sandbags is much easier than building a fort with rammed earth, and the cost is not high, as long as the sacks and tubes are enough.
"Guan family, we can use 400,000 bags of white rice this time!" Guo Tiannu, who was guarding Zhao Kai next to her, looked disgusted. "I don't know how much we can get back in the end? If every battle with the gold thief is so wasteful, Can the imperial court bear it?"
"Sister-in-law, you don't actually need to use white rice," Yue Fei was also with Zhao Kai, and his mind was spinning very fast, "Sacks are enough... Such a wall only has 400,000 sacks. It’s not worth much. But to fill so many sacks with soil, I’m afraid we’ll have to equip each army with some more shovels, which will cost a lot.”
"Hehe," Zhao Kai said with a smile, "just some shovels... When the situation calms down a bit, I will find a place to build a big iron factory and smelt a million kilograms of good iron every year!"
"Woooo..."
"Dong dong dong..."
When Zhao Kai just mentioned the idea of opening an iron factory, the originally peaceful front line suddenly became lively. As a melodious sound of horns and a dull sound of drums came from far and near, the Jinmen of the brigade The cavalry had already bypassed a ravine and began to enter the battlefield northwest of the "meter wall".
In fact, many small groups of Jin cavalry came over just now, but they did not get close to the long wall and just watched from a distance.
But what is coming now is not a small group of golden soldiers, but an extremely large group!
Zhao Kai said in a deep voice: "Here we come! Do you know who you are talking about?"
His question was addressed to Guo Tiannu. Guo Tiannu knew the Jurchen characters and was familiar with the situation of various Jin tribes.
"Many of them are Khitan," Guo Tiannv said, "The one who came should be Yelu Wuma... As for the Jurchens, the one who came should be the Pu family slaves!"
After a while, more and more golden soldiers appeared on the battlefield. They all entered the battlefield on horseback. One-third of them were unarmored horses. As soon as they entered the battlefield, they scattered in all directions and headed towards the long wall. The previous pounce test came. The rest are all armored soldiers, but I don’t know whether they are Iron Buddha heavy cavalry or hard-armed armored soldiers?
Different from the scattered horses, the armored soldiers on horseback gathered in front of the northeast corner of the long wall. They first formed small square formations and lined up in a row, and then most of them dismounted and stood by.
Nearly 15,000 soldiers were lined up like this. The sun's rays hit their armors, reflecting a chilling cold light, which was extremely intimidating.
"They...are going to hit our right side?" Zhao Kai looked at the dazzling silver light and asked a little uncertainly.
Yue Fei shook his head and frowned slightly, "It's hard to say... Our wall is too long, and their horses are fast. They can quickly mobilize their troops to attack our weak points."
"Can't we mobilize troops using mule carts?" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Although mule carts are not as fast as horses, they are still faster than walking on two legs, and they save effort!"
Speaking of saving effort, he couldn't help but look back.
Under the long wall behind him, there were people lying there at this time... all of them sleeping like dead pigs!
After ten hours of trekking, I spent a few more hours carrying the big bag like crazy. I couldn’t bear it!
So as soon as the rice wall was built, the people and soldiers who participated in the construction ate some dry food and slept with their clothes on.
Those currently responsible for finishing the project (digging trenches, spreading caltrops, and installing forks and rafters) and setting up defenses on the long wall are all soldiers from the two armies who had rested previously. Although the soldiers of these two armies had taken a nap for two hours, they were still a little tired. I wonder if they could withstand the golden thieves' successive attacks?
Also, how many gold thieves are there in Linru Town? Will there be a two-sided attack with the main force of the Golden Thief? And...can Han Shizhong, Huang Wuji and the others break the Jin Bing camp?
If they can't quickly break through the camps in Dengfeng and Mi County... I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight now!
