Yunzhou.∷

With the arrival of that group of "rabble", the balance of victory has completely tipped to the side of the Song Army. Then with the arrival of Zhang Jun and Liu Kai, the situation of the battle has gradually become clear. Zongze ordered Liu Kai to guard Changqing County, because they still

Yehuling was not captured. Wanyan Zonghan placed heavy troops to guard it and it was difficult to capture it. Therefore, it was necessary to prevent the Jin Army from getting reinforcements from entering the pass again. Fortunately, Changqing County has always been a dangerous place. Once the Song Army controlled this place, the Jin Army

It is absolutely impossible to think of rescuing Yunzhou as easily as Wanyan Zongqian.

Yunzhou was besieged, which meant that the Jin army in Mingyingzhou became a lone army and was quickly dispersed by the reinforcements from Zhending Mansion.

As a result, the reinforcements from the entire Yanyun area were in Yunzhou City. Facing Zongze's approaching step by step, Wanyan Zongqian was also forced into the city. To be honest, their cavalry wanted to defeat this army.

The only way for the convoy is to surround the convoy, dig trenches in front, cut off the food and fodder of this convoy, and trap them to death. Otherwise, if you have to force it, it will almost be a dead end. The key is that after the Song Army's bows and arrows are shot out,

They can be retrieved again because they are all within range.

Zongze attacked for three consecutive days and was unable to fight hard. After all, Yunzhou City also had tens of thousands of new troops who had just arrived. Both sides suffered heavy losses. Zongze knew that if he continued to attack, the losses would be even more heavy. By then, the Jin army would be reinforced.

As a result, the battle situation may change dramatically, and he does not want to kill more people. In addition, it rained heavily for several days during the period, which hindered the attack. Therefore, he decided to implement a siege strategy and then sent heavy troops to guard the city.

To the northwest of Yunzhou, they were ready for the reinforcements of the Jin Army to arrive, but they must not be allowed to join together. At the same time, Zongze sent people to go around the pass to inquire about the reinforcements of the Jin Army, but

For several days, there was no news of reinforcements from the Jin Army.

This made Zongze, Zhao Kai and the others very confused, because they knew that Wanyan Zongqian did not bring a large amount of food and grass, which meant that there must be a supporting army behind him, but now they can't see any sign of the Jin Kingdom rescuing Yunzhou.

, this is really incredible.

Anyway, they have built fortresses all over the mountains and plains. Even if enemy reinforcements come, they still have the capital to fight. Moreover, under the order of the logistics officer Madman Li, the Song army set up 5,000 catapults near Yunzhou in one day. Among them,

There are four thousand catapults directly erected on the high mountains on both sides of Yunzhou.

Before, these high mountains had caused countless troubles for the Song army, but now---.

The Song army was condescending and looked down at Yunzhou City. Because it was so high, the large catapults could directly bombard Yunzhou City. Zongze ordered that Yunzhou City be bombarded day and night. I will not let the soldiers attack. I will crush you alive.

How far has this attack gone? It is said that there are no stones within a radius of 500 miles in Yunzhou. They are mixed with explosive packets and thrown into it with all their strength. Master Li estimated when he was idle and bored that if this method of attack was used, the attack would take a whole year.

If so, Yunzhou City could probably be filled with stones.

It's evening again. The afterglow of the setting sun in the west shines on Yunzhou City again, but it no longer shines like a golden armor like it did a few days ago. It is indestructible. Now it is more like the setting sun on the west mountain.

Under the city.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat."

"What do you want to eat today?"

“Fish head soup!”

"Haha, fighting with the Privy Councilor is happiness."

When going out to fight, you can also drink fish soup. This may have appeared in a dream before.

Now that it has turned into a protracted war, in order to appease the morale of the troops, Li Qi decided to use delicious food to relieve the laziness of being unable to conquer for a long time and give the soldiers the best living environment. Because Yunzhou has many rivers, there are also many fresh rivers, so Li Qi asked the navy to go there.

Fishing was done in various rivers to comfort the soldiers.

In fact, for so many people, no matter how much fish you catch, it won’t be enough. But this is not a problem for Master Li. In order to satisfy this huge number of people, he uses the river fresh food he caught to make a delicious soup, so that the soup can be used.

Eat it with the tasteless dry food.

Moreover, they had summer-relieving soup to drink every day, and the soldiers were very satisfied with it.

The aroma of fish soup spread to Yunzhou City, and the Jin Jun's saliva on the city wall flowed down. The wall between them was like a world of ice and fire.

Because Wanyan Zongqian was marching in a hurry, he did not bring much food with him, and it was not enough for self-protection. Wherever there was excess, it was distributed to the defenders in the city. This means that the defenders in the city still rely on the reserves of Yunzhou City, but now the

The reserves were gradually depleted, and the food supply suddenly became tense. Not to mention that like Song Jun, who enjoyed spicy food, even having a full stomach was now a problem.

The Jin army on the city wall could only look at the Song army blankly with the spirit of looking at plum blossoms to quench their thirst.

"Why hasn't Zong Pan come yet?"

Wanyan Zonghan waited day after day, but he still didn't hear news about the reinforcements, and he couldn't help but become anxious.

Wanyan Zongqian narrowed his eyes and said, "Based on the distance, Zong Pan should have arrived by now. Could it be that--"

At this point, the anger stopped. Wanyan Zonghan frowned and said: "If Zong Pan dares to do this, if I go back one day, I will kill him with my own hands."

Gao Qingyi suddenly said: "Capital, there is a shortage of food in the city now. We have to make other plans. We can't put all the pressure on the reinforcements that we don't even have news about."

Wanyan Zonghan said: "You mean to give up Yunzhou?"

Gao Qingyi nodded.

"No. This is absolutely not possible."

After hearing this, Wanyan Zonghan shook his head repeatedly.

Wanyan Zongqian also said: "Zong Han, now is not the time to be vindictive. The weather is hot now, which is very unfavorable to us. If there is no news of reinforcements in another three days, we must break through, otherwise the Song army will overrun.

Come more and more.”

Wanyan Zonghan said: "I am not reluctant to leave Yunzhou, nor do I want these tens of thousands of troops to be buried with Yunzhou, but you must not forget that Zong Wang and Xiyin are still fighting in Xixia. If we leave, the main force of the Southern Dynasties will definitely

When we march into Xixia, Zongwang and the others will be attacked from both sides and we must contain the main force of the Southern Dynasty for Zongwang and the others."

Wanyan Zongqian thought for a while and said: "Let's go to meet Zong Wang and the others and concentrate our forces to destroy Xixia first."

Wanyan Zonghan pondered for a moment, still hesitated, and said: "Let me think about it again."

...

...

It was late at night, and there were only scattered torches burning on the top of the city, but there were no soldiers guarding the surrounding areas where the torches were lit.

In a dark corner, two soldiers nestled inside.

One person said: "These days are really rough. I can't even stay in a place with light."

The latter person hummed: "Light? It's important for us to save our lives now. If you have the ability, go and stay under the torch. You don't know that the Song army always throws stones at places with light when attacking at night, so the military advisor asked us to stay here."

A place without light."

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from three meters away.

The two men were stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other. Although they couldn't see each other, they could feel the other's fear.

"The Song army attacked, the Song army attacked."

The two of them immediately shouted.

In the past, the Song army concentrated its firepower on those bright places. Therefore, Gao Qingyi asked the soldiers to hide in places without light at night. However, Li Qi has always been crafty. He went up the mountain to patrol tonight and found that the torch of the Jin army was very strange.

They gathered together in twos and threes, so they could see through each other's thoughts and immediately ordered people to bombard the place where there was no light.

The Jin army thought that the Song army would definitely be the same as before, so they all hid in a dark place and fell asleep. Little did they know that the Song army went in the opposite direction. Suddenly there was chaos on the city, and many soldiers were beaten to death.

After another hour of continuous bombing, the Song army stopped attacking.

Although it didn't last long, the day and night bombing made the soldiers of the Jin Army exhausted physically and mentally. They hardly had a good night's sleep these days. How could such soldiers win?

"Hoo---ho---!"

In the darkness, only two heavy breathing sounds could be heard. These two people were the ones hiding in the corner just now. In just one hour, he had seen dozens of brothers being bombed to death.

The Song Army's catapult suddenly came out of the blue. The Jin Army was unexpected and suffered heavy losses.

One person said: "Brother, we can't go on like this. Song Jun is throwing stones day and night. We have to risk our lives even when we sleep. I don't think we can stay here anymore."

Another person said: "It doesn't matter what you say, I also know that I can't stay here any longer. If I could leave, I would have left long ago, but where can we go if we are surrounded by Song troops?"

The first person said: "There is a place to go."

The latter person asked: "Where are you going?"

The first person lowered his voice and said, "It means taking refuge in the Song Army."

"What?"

"Oh, please keep your voice down!"

"You---you want to join the Song Army."

"Don't you think about it? I think the Jin army is exhausted, and the only way out is to join the Song army."

"But at this time, will the Song Army accept us?"

"We are all Han people. We abandoned the secrets and turned to the light. I think the Song Army will accept us. Even if they don't accept us, I can't stay here anymore. I have decided to join the Song Army. Do you want to go or not."

"If I could go, why wouldn't I go? But where did we go out? If we were caught without leaving the city gate, huh, we all have that temper. You also know that if we knew that we were going to join the Song Army,

, then we will have to be cut into pieces."

"Don't worry, I've found a way to leave the city secretly."

"Come and tell me."

"You don't know, although the military advisor blocked the water gate with stones, there is still a gap on the edge of the big stone just enough for a person to pass through. We will take turns patrolling that area at midnight the day after tomorrow. Then we will sneak into the water and go out through the water gate.

, Don’t worry, we know all about the traps there. With our two brothers’ agility, we can get away from the city gate in one go and no one will notice. What do you think, do you want to go together?”

"Hmm----Okay, let's take a gamble."
To be continued...