Qiming 1158

Chapter 210 The Central Army of the Golden State is Coming

After listening to Su Yonglin's idea, Xin Qiji was quite impressed.

"The general's clever trick, the subordinates admire it! In this way, our army has become active again, and even if we want to besiege the city, we don't need to use too many soldiers and horses! They can be trapped!"

"More than that."

Su Yonglin pointed at Zhending City: "If the dam is built, I will dig a dam and flood the city with water. How can Zhending City persist? It must be self-defeating!"

Xin Qiji nodded again and again and said yes.

But he quickly thought of a question.

"General, the winter in Hebei is cold, and the rivers often freeze on the ice. If the river freezes on the ice when we start the war, then... it will be a big problem."

"I know, but we don't have a better choice. We have to take a gamble. Before it's too cold, we can complete the dam as much as possible. Even if it freezes, at least we can have a solid dirt city. Surround Zhending City."

Su Yonglin said so, Xin Qiji had no choice but to nod.

"That's true. As long as you can surround Zhending City, you can switch from attacking to defending, 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 the generals of the army to inform the whole army about this strategy, and then started the civil engineering.

The dam construction cannot be threatened by the defenders in the city, so it must be beyond the range of the crossbow, so that the defenders cannot threaten the dam building in the city.

Because it has the effect of storing water, the dam must have a certain strength, and it cannot collapse when it is washed by the water. In that case, the flood will flood the Dragon King Temple, and Su Yonglin will destroy himself with the water attack, which is too funny.

In addition, the strength of the embankment of the Hutuo River also needs to be investigated. How to dig the safest way will not lead to the flooding of the Hutuo River. This is also a professional issue.

Otherwise, it would be funny if there was a big flood before the battle was fought, and everyone drowned.

Therefore, Su Yonglin needs professional talents to guide the construction, and can't mess around.

Fortunately, the hodgepodge group of the Restoration Army is a mixed bag, and everyone has it. Su Yonglin has really found relevant water conservancy talents, a group of craftsmen with rich experience in dam construction.

After negotiating with them, Su Yonglin learned that it was in the dry season in winter, the Hutuo River had not much water, and the danger of digging dams was less, and it was not as scary as the wet season.

As long as the new dam has a certain strength, it is equivalent to scratching the Hutuo River, it will not affect the overall situation, it will not cause the river to flood, and the remediation afterwards is relatively simple - as long as it does not suffer from the flood season.

Of course, the biggest risk is the freezing of ice on the river, so if everything is over, this strategy will become quite embarrassing.

However, there is no sign of the river freezing yet, and the temperature is not too low to be unbearable. Su Yonglin believes that there is still time, so hurry up and complete the offensive as soon as possible, so that Zhending City can be captured at the least cost.

Dare to flood Zhending before it freezes, and then you will get a frozen Zhending city, which is also a very interesting thing to think about.

After doing some safety demonstrations, Su Yonglin made the decision, don't worry about it so much, just start working, and seize all the time.

As promised, under the guidance of professionals, the coalition began site selection on the tenth day of November and broke ground.

While using the army to monitor the movement in the city, construction works are carried out outside the city, soil is excavated, dams are built, and a simplified version of the artificial dam is built.

Not to mention, the amount of work was quite large, and Su Yonglin wanted to complete it as soon as possible, so he urgently dispatched civilians from the area controlled by the coalition forces on the south bank to help.

So everyone worked in full swing, and the progress of the project was very fast.

The dam was built closer to Zhending City than the military camp.

Su Yonglin planned to use a circle of dams to store water, and the outer circle would be the coalition barracks, so he would create two blockades to lock them up.

However, at the same time as he was doing great things, Su Yonglin received important information from the intelligence unit led by Su Yin.

A golden army has set out from the imperial capital of the golden kingdom and headed south to Mozhou, north of Hejian Mansion. The intention is unclear, but the size of this army is quite large, with a number of about [-], all cavalry, and many horses. for the elite.

The intelligence team has passed the relevant information to Sun Ziyi's Shenwu Army, and Sun Ziyi has already received the information and has become vigilant.

Su Yonglin also became vigilant.

Wanyanliang finally reacted, and the Central Army of the Jin Kingdom came.

Or a full [-] elite iron cavalry.

On a flat land like Hebei, the [-] elite iron cavalry is worth several times the elite infantry. If the two sides are in a battle, without relying on terrain, military camps or cities, the infantry will not be able to pursue even if they win.

It is difficult to expand the results.

Once defeated by the cavalry, it is basically the end of the entire army.

It's coming so fast...

Su Yonglin frowned.

Judging from the current situation, it is clear that the Central Army of the Jin Kingdom intends to take Hejian Mansion first, then from Hejian Mansion along the Hutuo River westward, directly to Zhending Mansion, to encircle and suppress his troops.

If Sun Ziyi of Hejian Mansion couldn't stop this golden army, then it would not take a few days for the golden army to arrive at Zhending Mansion, and it was hard to say that the project on his own side could be completed in time.

And I don't know if the Jin Army will have follow-up troops to directly take Zhendingfu.

And if you really want to fight on your own side, you will easily be attacked by the golden soldiers in the city.

No, the schedule has to be accelerated and the strategy has to be changed.

Su Yonglin convened a meeting with relevant personnel and conveyed the latest requirements.

Because there are Jin Kingdom cavalry attacking, in order to deal with the attacking Jin Kingdom cavalry, he plans to build a thicker dam facing the outer layer, and then build a military camp on top to artificially create a condescending environment.

This strategy is like the dirt city that the siege troops needed to build in the past when there were no powerful long-range attack weapons.

Before large-scale siege equipment such as trebuchets were born, the army had to build a city wall. Some armies built a city wall higher than the city wall, and archers shot arrows on it to attack the defenders on the city wall, forming a strategic strategy. confrontation.

Su Yonglin will do the same.

The water storage dam should be built as a soil city, and the military camp on the flat ground should also be set up on the soil city. In this way, even if the elite cavalry of the Jin Army comes to relieve the siege, the military camp will be commanding, and the cavalry will attack from the back, and the impact and deterrence will be great. reduce.

If there is an emergency, the logistics will be threatened, and the dam will be dug up, and the flood will rush.

On the muddy ground, four horse legs are no better than two human legs, and the advantage of cavalry is gone.

No matter if you rush to the outside or the inside, whether you rush to the cavalry or the real Dingcheng, one will always be destroyed, and if one is destroyed, the other will not survive.

Isn't the so-called art of war to find ways to make yourself invincible?

That is, the amount of work is slightly larger.

However, a young and strong labor force of 10 people can carry out this project no matter what.

As long as time, the key is time.

"The project must be completed before the golden thief reinforcements arrive, and the water will be stored successfully! As long as all soldiers have no military tasks, they will all go to the building. The sooner the better, there must be no mistake!"

Su Yonglin conveyed his order, and the entire coalition immediately began a race against time.

Jin Jun in Zhending City also noticed this.

They expressed doubts about the situation that the coalition forces were only besieging but not attacking, and they were still building construction outside, and they did not know what the coalition forces were doing.

Wu Gu Lun Wolun led people to the top of the tower to look out, and found the actions of the coalition forces, and was very puzzled.

"Besieged but not attacked, and they have to build a lot of construction. Are they planning to build a strong barracks here and confront me for a long time?"

People around me don't know why, I don't know how to answer.

I 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 don't do that kind of stupid thing.

So Jin Jun in the city just watched, watched, watched.

It was very strange to see the coalition forces continue to carry out civil engineering, dig river channels, and build dams, starting from both sides of their due north, and building a ring of fortifications to surround them.

(End of this chapter)