On the battlefield of the Zhending Front Army, Wanyan Yiying commanded his 40,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on Zhending City, while Ma Weiying, the defender of Zhending City, led the Zhending defenders to fight tenaciously.
Zhending City is a fortified city of the same level as Hejian City. It can accommodate a large population and the city is wide and deep. Moreover, after the thorough "cleaning" of the previous battle, the original structure of the city was completely destroyed, leaving no trace The existence of high-ranking families is all common people.
During the post-war reconstruction period, Su Yonglin converted all the houses that had been occupied by wealthy families in the city into ordinary houses, thus moving a larger number of civilians to live in Zhending City than before.
At present, Zhending City, which has become a war fortress, can also accommodate a considerable number of people to take refuge in the city. Therefore, the number of civilians accommodated by Zhending City has reached 300,000, even more than tens of thousands of people in Hejian City.
However, the number of defenders in Zhending City is also the same, six thousand, and the configuration is exactly the same as that in Hejian City.
Su Yonglin indeed couldn't afford too many troops.
In response to this, Bao Yinian, the instructor of Zhending City, used the sufficient manpower in the city to recruit 30,000 strong men for temporary special training. He maximized the use of manpower and abundant material resources to greatly enhance the city's defense strength.
When Wanyan Yiying led 40,000 Jin Army soldiers to arrive outside Zhending City to launch an attack, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Zhending defenders. Facing the stubborn resistance from the Zhending defenders, Wanyan Yiying was unable to do anything for a while.
Coincidentally, about 40,000 Jin troops under Heshi Lieliangbi also launched an attack on Boye City.
Although Boye City does not have as strong a defensive force as Hejian City and Zhending City, the Boye defenders do not lack courage.
Under the leadership of the guard Hu Yue, they resisted resolutely, repeatedly thwarted the attacks of He Shi Lieliangbi's troops, and caused heavy damage to the Jin army.
Facing the tough and tenacious Boye garrison, Heshi Lieliangbi had no good solution for a while.
The three troops of the Jin Army were blocked by three cities at the same time and could not advance even an inch.
The relevant information was sent back to the headquarters of the Jinan Liberation Army as quickly as possible by the intelligence force dispatched by Su Yonglin, letting Su Yonglin in Jinan know how far the current war situation was progressing.
At present, the Jin Army has not launched a full-scale offensive, so Su Yonglin can still learn about the situation in Hebei in a relatively timely manner.
Knowing that the Jin army was divided into three groups and blocked by three cities and could not advance even an inch, the general headquarters cheered and thought this was very good news.
As long as the city can hold on long enough, it will definitely be able to overwhelm the Jin Army's logistics and give the main field force of the Liberation Army a chance to counterattack.
Su Yonglin looked at the passionate staff officers in the headquarters, watching them imagine how the Liberation Army would go north to counterattack after defeating the main force of the Jin Army, and suddenly felt a little guilty in his heart.
So after the intelligence analysis was completed, Su Yonglin climbed onto the Jinan city wall alone with a few guards. In a corner of the city wall, he leaned against the city wall stacks and looked north.
After watching for a while, Tian Guizi came.
"Alang, there are still many things that you need to deal with."
"how did you find me?"
Su Yonglin turned his head and looked at Tian Guizi.
Tian Guizi smiled.
"This isn't the first time I've found you on the city wall. Whenever you have something on your mind these past few days, you come to the city wall and stare at the north. If I ask you what's going on, you won't tell me."
"Have I been here so many times?"
Su Yonglin turned his gaze to the north again: "Let me watch for a while."
"Alang, what are you worried about?"
Tian Guizi took a few steps forward and stood next to Su Yonglin, looking at him with concern: "If you can, just tell me. Although it may not be able to solve the problem, at least if you say it, you will feel more relaxed. Don't hold too much in your heart. If you overdo too many things, you will get sick."
Su Yonglin was silent for a moment.
"Gezi, how many cities do you think we will be captured by gold thieves this time?"
Tian Guizi was stunned when he heard this.
He really hasn't thought about this problem.
He hoped that not a single city would be conquered, because the preparations were indeed very complete, and all kinds of strong walls and clear fields were used to enrich the city defense.
but……
The Jin army is indeed very powerful. If it faces a city alone, the advantage brought by the strength difference of ten times or even dozens of times cannot be completely offset by just one city wall.
Theoretically, every city has the possibility of being conquered.
Of course, every city has the possibility of holding on and not being conquered by golden soldiers.
The key is people.
So Tian Guizi said slowly: "It's hard to say, but Alang has tried his best to provide these cities with sufficient weapons and food. Whether they will fall or not is beyond Alang's decision."
"Big cities like Hejian and Zhending are not necessarily big cities, but not all of those thirty cities are big cities. There are also smaller cities. Time is too tight. We don't even have time to expand. If you can give me another year With time, we can at least expand those cities."
Su Yonglin sighed slightly: "It's a pity that we don't have enough time, so we can only take advantage of the short ones. As long as the golden thieves have enough troops and spend enough time, they can't conquer all the cities, but they can still conquer a few of them. I don't think this is possible by human power." Twisted.”
Tian Guizi was silent for a moment, and then said: "That's not necessarily the case. The defenders of the city are all generals carefully selected by Alang. They are all capable, and they may not lose the city. If...then there is nothing that can be done. If it is true, It happened, who can stop it?"
"Yes, once it happens, I can't stop it. No matter how they ask for help, I can't do anything. I told them that they don't have reinforcements, and we can't send troops to support them. They can only rely on themselves.
If we are at the end of our rope, we can only watch the 100,000 or 200,000 people in the city being massacred... If the city persists in resisting and causes a large number of casualties to the siege army, the siege army will almost certainly massacre the city. "
Su Yonglin took a deep breath and said, "Because they believed in me, they followed my orders and entered the city. However, I cannot guarantee that each of them can safely survive in the city until the end of the war..."
"No one can guarantee this kind of thing in war-torn times. In a war, who can dare to say that he will survive? When you go to the battlefield, you should be determined to die and fight with all your strength. Only in this way can you have the possibility of survival."
Tian Guizi shook his head repeatedly.
"But my strategy has been designed from the very beginning. Once a city is breached, it will inevitably be massacred."
Su Yonglin sighed and said: "On the Great Plains, cities can't even support each other because there are too many golden thieves and cavalry. If one city is in a hurry, it can only stand up by itself, otherwise it will affect other cities.
Of course I hope that none of the cities will be breached, but this is too difficult. Some cities have only two thousand defenders, while the Jin army often has tens of thousands. Facing more than ten times the enemy, can the defenders really withstand it? ? "
Tian Guizi looked at Su Yonglin and found that Su Yonglin was too fragile at this time, completely different from the firm and iron-blooded self who would do anything in public.
Only in front of a very few people, Su Yonglin would occasionally reveal his inner fragility and softness. This was a secret that Tian Guizi, one of those very few people, knew.
When people are under pressure, they should release it appropriately, but Tian Guizi does not always agree with Su Yonglin's fragility.
"Alang is still too kind."
Tian Guizi just shook his head and said: "In this world, if there is a war, who can guarantee that you will survive? The people can't, and we can't. Why didn't Alang risk his life and fight to the death with the golden thief? Once the war started, no one would be able to survive. Everyone should be prepared to die if they can transcend the situation."
Su Yonglin nodded.
He knew all the truth, but he just felt that his heart was filled with panic, and he always felt that he had to express some emotions.
"I know it all, and I know it very well. I just feel that my heart is blocked and panicked. But if I think about it more carefully, before and during the Jianbi Clearing the Wilderness, I didn't have that much thought. I just wanted to achieve my goal, and I didn't hesitate to pay for it. everything.
It was only later, at this time, that I started to worry about whether they would be massacred once the city was broken, and whether they would become slaves again... Gezi, I am also a hypocrite. People. "
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