On the fifth day of March 1793, Li Jinghuai, who was too cautious, finally moved to the city of Lingzhou.

At this time, the first battle group and the second battle group had already rushed over to return to the army with him. The Chinese army's front-line troops suddenly expanded to nearly 100,000, and more than 300 field artillery and siege artillery!

Such troops and firepower gathered on the same battlefield is also very rare in the history of the Chinese army.

Moreover, Li Jinghuai robbed all the stored grain, livestock, seeds from all the pseudo-Summer villages along the way, as well as the food, grass and ammunition transported by the Chinese army from a series of small fortresses in China, so he had sufficient supplies.

According to the current supply stock, even if it will not be transported at all in the future, it will be enough for the entire army to use it for more than ten days.

If there are three hundred cannons and one hundred thousand troops, if the city walls of Lingzhou cannot be opened in ten days, the artillery soldiers will still be punished.

If the Dangxiang people's previous withdrawal was a scorched earth tactic, then this tactic has now failed.

What other hidden dangers?

Well, there is also the Yellow River flood.

Lingzhou is right by the Yellow River. Dangxiang people can definitely do the task of locking water upstream, and then destroying the dam to prevent water when the Chinese army attacks the city, and using water instead of soldiers to subdue the Chinese army.

Although it is winter now, the Yellow River is insufficient, and the water is filled with ice floating everywhere. It is too difficult to lock water with the Dangxiang people's engineering ability, but there is a threat, and the existence of the front-line staff is to try to find these threats and then find ways to eliminate them.

After arriving at the city of Lingzhou, Li Jinghuai sent a large number of cavalry to maneuver upstream along the bank of the Yellow River.

Sure enough, the Dangxiang people tried to store water in several upstream dams, but they did not go well in winter.

The Chinese army easily dispersed the Dangxiang soldiers from these upstream dams and controlled the dam in their own hands.

However, there are still hidden dangers, because there are still many dams downstream near Xingqing Prefecture. The characteristic of the Yellow River is that even if the dams in the downstream break, floods may spread to both sides rather than further downstream.

"So we can't delay ten days." Li Jinghuai ordered the entire army: "We must conquer Lingzhou City within two days, and then the main force will move into the city!"

The city is protected by the walls, and facing floods is always much better than in the wild.

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In fact, the Dangxiang people did not have a plan to replace soldiers with water.

There are two reasons. The first is that the amount of projects to do this in winter is too large for Dangxiang people.

The second is because after decades of operation, the Xingling area is now not only the core territory of the Daxia Kingdom, but also the core territory of the Weimingjia. If they subdue the surrounding areas of Lingzhou, half of the Weimingjia's affiliated tribes will eat grass next year.

Unless a desperate blow, when you can completely ignore the future, a regime that only floods its own territory cannot be considered a normal regime.

The Dangxiang people have been in the founding of the country for almost a hundred years, so there is no such a minimum limit.

They only wanted to restrain some Chinese troops in the upstream, and threatened them to attack Lingzhou as soon as possible in order to create opportunities to win.

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On the seventh day of the third month, the Chinese army launched a general attack on Lingzhou.

From six kilograms of cavalry cannons to thirty kilograms of siege cannons, a total of 306 cannons were arranged under Lingzhou City.

At 10:00 a.m., with an order, all the cannons began to roar at the city walls in the south of Lingzhou.

More than 300 shells were thundering at the Lingzhou city wall with heart-wrenching screams. After a few seconds, the iron balls slammed heavily on the rammed earth city wall wrapped in bricks and stones.

The city walls immediately stood up and gravel flew around, and smoke and dust instantly covered the entire city wall. The screams of Xia soldiers were endless, and sometimes even suppressed the roar of artillery fire.

At the beginning, some heavy catapults in Lingzhou City threw several weak and weak stone bombs at this side as a counterattack, but as the shelling continued, even these catapults could not counterattack.

The Chinese soldiers with good eyes saw with their own eyes that the top of the dust flying to the air, the arms of a catapult flying like light leaves.

For the Xia army, the failure of the previous few months showed a hidden bad consequence - because all the defenders failed to escape, they could never summarize their experience in fighting against the Chinese artillery, so when they arrived in an important place like Lingzhou, they were still fantasizing about using the thickness of the city wall to resist artillery bombardment.

This made the battle a huge tragedy against the Dangxiang people. The front-line troops they deployed on the city wall and the first reserve team close to the city wall were almost completely crushed by the Chinese army along with the city wall.

The garrison power of Lingzhou quickly fell to a very dangerous level.

...

To the east of Lingzhou, there is a place called Lu Xiachuan.

Among the royal generals of the famous royal family members of the Daxia Kingdom, Wei Mingrong Rongli, the young generation's best man raised his head and looked towards Lingzhou.

Even though he was dozens of miles away, he could still hear a continuous and low figure like thunder.

There is no doubt that it was the sound of cannons.

"General, the Lingzhou area has begun." A deputy general of Iron Harrier approached and said carefully: "Are we..."

"What's the hurry?" Wei Ming Rongli said indifferently: "We only have one chance to succeed or not. Since that's the case, it's better to wait for a better opportunity."

"What's more, Lingzhou City is tall and thick, and there are tens of thousands of troops of two Privy Councilors who are stationed, so they will not be taken down by Hangou so soon."

Wei Ming Rongli has two thousand iron kids under his command, all of which are the sanitation of the Dabai Gaoguo, and they are the elite among the elites.

But there were only two thousand Iron Harrier ambushed outside Lingzhou City. Wei Ming Rongli could freely choose to attack what target - whether it was sneak attacking the Chinese artillery, attacking the Chinese army on the side, or attacking the Chinese army transportation line, it was entirely up to his own choice.

The reason is very simple. At this time, the Lingzhou defenders were soldiers of Renduo and Ye Bo's family.

Since early March, these great clans in the country had no orders to retreat and forced the emperor to change their strategies. When the decisive battle of Xingling, the great emperor had to make compromises, allowing Renduo and Ye Bo's soldiers to guard Lingzhou, let the soldiers without collectors guard Jingzhou between Xingling, and the soldiers of Weiming masters guard Xingzhou.

At the same time, Emperor Dade also sent Wei Mingrongli to lead elite Su Zhi to ambush outside Lingzhou City - also to monitor. Renduo and Ye Bo from the province fled to Xingqing Mansion with their troops, forcing the emperor to fight against the Chinese army under the capital city.

Fortunately, Renduo and Ye Bo also knew that Lingzhou should not be abandoned. Losing Lingzhou would be equivalent to losing the gate of Xingqing Prefecture. It would be completely impossible to block the enemy from the capital.

Therefore, Wei Ming Rongli knew that those rebels who threatened the emperor would definitely not give up Lingzhou, but he was unwilling to come forward to help the war now.

"We have to let them suffer a little, so that they can understand that Dabai Gaoguo has the surname Wei!"

Wei Ming Rongli thought fiercely:

"When I defeated Hangou, I will deal with you one by one. Let's see if you dare to threaten you!"

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Lingzhou City.

"Why didn't that bastard Wei Ming Rongli come yet?"

Amid the rumbling cannons, Ye Boma howled in despair:
Chapter completed!