After hearing Su Yonglin's idea, Xin Qiji was very impressed.
"My subordinates admire the general's clever plan! In this way, our army becomes proactive again. Even if we want to besiege the city, we don't need to use too many soldiers and horses! We can trap them to death!"
"It's more than that."
Su Yonglin pointed at Zhending City: "If the dam is built, I will dig the dam and flood the city with water. How can Zhending City survive? It will definitely collapse without attack!"
Xin Qiji nodded in agreement.
But he quickly thought of a question.
"General, the winter in Hebei is cold, and the rivers often freeze and freeze. If the river freezes and freezes when we start the war, then... it will be a serious problem."
"I know, but we have no better choice. We must take a gamble and complete the siege dam as much as possible before it is too cold. Even if it freezes by then, at least there will be a solid earth city, which can still be Surround Zhending City."
Su Yonglin said this, and Xin Qiji had no choice but to nod.
"Indeed, as long as we can surround Zhending City, we can switch from attack to defense and consume the food and military supplies in the city. No matter what, it will be beneficial to our army."
So Su Yonglin immediately summoned all the generals in the army to inform the whole army of the plan, and then began the civil engineering work.
The dam construction cannot be threatened by the defenders in the city, so it must be beyond the range of the bed crossbow so that the defenders cannot threaten the dam construction in the city.
Because it has the function of storing water, the dam must have a certain strength and cannot collapse as soon as it is washed away by water. In that case, a flood would wash away the Dragon King Temple, and Su Yonglin would destroy himself with a water attack. That would be too funny.
The strength of the Hutuo River embankment also needs to be examined. How to dig it out is the safest way to avoid flooding of the Hutuo River. This is also a professional issue.
Otherwise, it would be funny if there was a huge flood before the war started and all our own people were drowned.
Therefore, Su Yonglin needs professionals to guide the construction and cannot mess around.
Fortunately, the Liberation Army was a hodgepodge of people, with everyone included. Su Yonglin actually found relevant water conservancy talents, a group of craftsmen with rich experience in dam construction.
After discussing with them, Su Yonglin learned that it was now the dry season in winter, and the amount of water in the Hutuo River was not large. The danger of digging the dam was less, and it was not as scary as the wet season.
As long as the new dam has a certain strength, it will scratch the itch of the Hutuo River and will not affect the overall situation. It will not cause the river to flood, and subsequent remediation will be relatively simple - as long as it does not wait until the flood season.
Of course, the biggest risk is that ice freezes on the river. If everything stops, this strategy will become quite embarrassing.
However, there are still no signs of freezing on the river, and the temperature is not too low to bear. Su Yonglin believes that there is still time, so he should hurry up and complete the offensive as soon as possible, so that he can capture Zhending City at the minimum cost.
If you dare to flood Zhending before it freezes, you will be able to get a frozen Zhending city by then. It is also very interesting to think about it.
After making some safety arguments, Su Yonglin decided not to worry about so much, just get started and seize all the time.
Just go ahead and get started. Under the guidance of professionals, the coalition began to select a site and broke ground on November 10th.
While using the army to monitor the actions within the city, they were carrying out extensive construction work outside the city, excavating soil, building embankments, and building a simple artificial dam.
Not to mention, the amount of the project was quite large. Su Yonglin wanted to complete it as soon as possible, so he urgently mobilized civilian laborers from the coalition-controlled area on the south bank to come and help. They paid wages on a daily basis. Counting soldiers and generals, he had a labor force of about 100,000 strong men.
So everyone started working enthusiastically, and the project progressed very quickly.
The dam was built closer to Zhending City than the military camp.
Su Yonglin planned to build a circle of dams to store water, and the outer circle was the coalition military camp. He planned to create two blockades to lock them up.
However, while he was busy doing important things, Su Yonglin received important information from the intelligence force led by Su Yin.
A Jin army has set out from the imperial capital of the Jin Kingdom and moved south to Mozhou, north of Hejian Prefecture. The intention is unknown, but the size of this army is quite large, with about 20,000 people, all cavalry, and many war horses. For the elite.
The intelligence team has passed the relevant information to Sun Tzu Yi's Shenwu Army. Sun Tzu Yi has received the information and has become vigilant.
Su Yonglin also became wary.
Wan Yanliang finally realized that the Central Army of the Kingdom of Jin was coming.
There are still 20,000 elite cavalry.
On a flat land like Hebei, 20,000 elite cavalry are worth several times the elite infantry. If the two sides engage in a battle without relying on the terrain, military camps or cities, the infantry will not be able to pursue them even if they win.
It is difficult to expand the results.
Once defeated by the cavalry, the entire army will basically be annihilated.
It came very quickly...
Su Yonglin frowned.
Judging from the current situation, the Central Army of the Jin Kingdom obviously plans to take Hejian Mansion first, and then march westward along the Hutuo River from Hejian Mansion, directly to Zhending Mansion, to encircle and suppress his troops.
If Sun Tzu Yi of Hejian Mansion cannot stop this Jin Bing, it will not take a few days for the Jin Bing to arrive at Zhending Mansion, and it is difficult to say that the project on his side can be completed in time.
And I don’t know if the Jin Army will have follow-up troops to take Zhending Mansion directly.
And if a fight really breaks out on our side, it will be easy for the golden soldiers in the city to cooperate with each other and attack from both sides.
No, the construction period needs to be accelerated, and the strategy needs to be changed.
Su Yonglin called a meeting with relevant personnel and conveyed the latest requirements.
Because there were Jin cavalry coming to attack, in order to deal with the attacking Jin cavalry, he planned to build the layer facing the outside of the dam thicker, and then build the military camp on top to artificially create a condescending environment.
This strategy is like the earthen cities that siege troops needed to build in the past when there were no powerful long-range attack weapons.
Before the advent of large-scale siege equipment such as trebuchets, armies had to build earthen cities to attack cities. Some armies built earthen cities higher than the city walls, and archers fired arrows from them to attack the defenders on the city walls, forming a strategic strategy. Confrontation.
Su Yonglin will do the same.
The dams that store water should be built as earthen cities, and the military camps located on the flat land should also be set up on the earthen cities. In this way, even if the elite cavalry of the Jin Army comes to rescue the siege, the military camp will be condescending, and the cavalry will attack from behind, and the impact will be greatly deterred. reduce.
If we are in a hurry and our logistics are threatened, the worst we can do is dig a dam and flood it.
On the muddy land, four horse legs are no better than two human legs. The advantage of cavalry is gone, and everyone can see the real difference between soldiers and generals.
No matter whether they charge outside or inside, whether they charge cavalry or Zhending City, one of them will be destroyed, and if one is destroyed, the other will not survive.
Isn't the so-called art of war just trying to find ways to make yourself invincible?
In other words, the amount of work is slightly larger.
But a young and strong labor force of 100,000 people can get this project off the ground no matter what.
As long as time is the key, time is the key.
"We must complete the project and successfully store water before the Golden Thief reinforcements arrive! All soldiers, as long as they have no military missions, will all go to the building. The sooner the better, no mistakes!"
Su Yonglin passed on his order, and the entire coalition immediately began to race against time.
In this regard, the Jin army in Zhending City was also aware of this.
They expressed doubts about the fact that the coalition forces were only besieging but not attacking, and were still carrying out large-scale construction projects outside. They did not know what the coalition forces were doing.
Wu Gulunwo Lun led people to the top of the city tower to look out, and discovered the actions of the coalition forces, and was very puzzled by this.
"They are sieging but not attacking, and they are still building a lot of construction projects. Are they planning to build a strong barracks here to confront me for a long time?"
People around me don’t know what’s going on and don’t know how to answer.
You can't see anything now, but if the coalition forces don't come to attack the city, they certainly won't foolishly take the initiative to go out of the city to attack the coalition forces. They won't do that kind of stupid thing.
So the Jin army in the city just watched, watched, watched.
It was very strange to watch the coalition forces continue to carry out civil engineering projects, dig river channels, and build dams. They started construction on both sides from their due north, as if they were building a ring of fortifications to surround them.
