Qiming 1158

Chapter 394 The Besieged Hejian City

Wanyan Benjian began to carry out the emperor's orders.

Arrange the army to set up camp in a safe and suitable location, and then mobilize the army to start clearing the obstacles around the city that hinder the army's attack, and further dispatch the rangers to explore around Hejian City to see if there is any contact inside and outside the city.

He wants to cut off all external contacts in Hejian City, so that Hejian City will not receive any assistance from the outside world, and so on until it is broken.

On November [-]th, preparations for the siege of the city were successfully completed. Wanyanliang ordered the army to prepare for the siege, and also received a military intelligence report from Heshi Lie Liangbi.

Heshi Lieliangbi led the right army with 4 troops to go south from Xiongzhou, occupying the unguarded Gecheng County and Gaoyang County of Anzhou along the way, and divided his troops to occupy Baozhou.

He fought a few victories without enemies, but he didn't encounter any resistance troops of the Restoration Army along the way. Then, when he continued to advance to Boye County in Lizhou, he finally encountered the defenders of the Restoration Army.

While arranging the army to attack Bo Ye, He Shi Lie Liangbi also told Wanyan Liang some of his thoughts.

He found that the Restoration Army had carried out very resolute measures to clear the borders in several states along the border. No trace of anyone could be found, and there were no supplies such as food, cloth, or weapons that could be used in war. It can be said that these states were all destroyed by Evacuated.

This kind of strong wall and clearing is very rare, and it is enough to prove that the Restoration Army is well prepared and has a tenacious will to fight.

Heshi Lie Liangbi hoped that the emperor must pay attention to protecting the logistics, and that he must not go too deep into Hebei alone before he has figured out the marching formation of the Restoration Army.

After Wanyanliang heard the news, she thought about it seriously, and felt that what He Shilie Liangbi said also made sense.

The tactical tactics of the Restoration Army's fortification of the walls and clearing the fields were very resolute, which surprised him a little. He couldn't find any food along the way. If he wanted to improve the food for the soldiers, he had to rely on woodcutters, fishing and hunting.

But now it is winter, the wild animals are hiding in the holes and cannot come out, the river is frozen and it is not easy to catch fish, and the woodcutter can't pick anything to eat, so the marching all the way must rely on logistics to replenish food, which is difficult to obtain on the spot.

This made Wan Yanliang very annoyed.

The war preparations of the Restoration Army were too perfect, so that the Jin Army encountered this kind of alternative disarming power as soon as he set out on the expedition.

But this only made Wanyanliang more fighting spirit.

He didn't expect to rely on the local area without refilling much food when he went on an expedition, and this level of fortification and clearing the fields was not so unbelievable to him, and the key point was that if the army could not control the logistics of the expedition, what kind of battle would it be?

Su Yonglin gave him a slap in the face, and he would slap Su Yonglin in a more resolute way, letting him know that it was absolutely impossible for him to stop his attack with this level of sturdy wall and clear wilderness!

Wanyan Liang gave an order, and the Hejian offensive and defensive battle officially began.

Hejian City is a strong city and a big city, and it is a war fortress that Su Yonglin has given high hopes for. Therefore, the defender Jiang Liangping is the deputy general of the Tianxing Army. The main force of the defending force is the two regiments of the Tianxing Army, which are very elite.

In addition, in order to increase the strength of the city's defenders, Su Yonglin also assigned a local armed independent battalion to Hejian City, and the number of regular defenders reached [-].

In Jiang Liangping's opinion, only [-] troops were not enough to defend the city.

Therefore, after entering Hejian City and taking over power, he entrusted his deputy and senior instructor Wu Anxiang to lead some capable officers to organize the strong men in the city, select [-] strong men, give them weapons and equipment, and pull them to start an emergency military operation. train.

These trainings are not based on fighting, but on ideological education and technical training.

In addition to the ideological education of protecting the family behind them, the main purpose is to teach them how to use defense weapons, such as crossbows, crossbows, trebuchets, firearms, etc., so that they can support the battle on the city wall with the fastest speed.

Fighting, a skill that takes a long time to train, is useless no matter how hard they attack, and as long as they learn to use defense weapons, they can fight in the city and provide support to the main army.

This kind of quick technical arms is not comparable to the regular military technical arms that have undergone rigorous training, but as long as the number is sufficient, it can still play a huge role.

Su Yonglin told Jiang Liangping that once the Jin army realized that the whole Hebei had implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, they would go crazy, but before that, they would definitely regard Hejian and Zhending as the targets they had to attack and besiege them with all their might.

Whether Zhending and Hejian can withstand the initial period of time is of great significance to the entire battle.

If they can dampen the spirit of the Jin Army, defend Hejian City and Zhending City, and prevent the Jin Army from capturing these two cities, then for the Jin Army, the battle has already been lost in half.

If they want to go south, they must divide their troops to surround the two cities. The soldiers in these two cities can contain at least [-] to [-] Jin army even if they don't go out.

However, the strength of the Jin Army must not be underestimated. This is what Su Yonglin has warned the generals many times. The elites of the Jin Army have strong combat effectiveness in both siege operations and field battles.

Not to mention that under their full force, there are probably hundreds of siege equipment, lined up one by one, which can encircle the entire Hejian City two or three times.

In order to increase the possibility of their success in defending the city, Su Yonglin also gave each of them a handbook for defending the city, which detailed the possible siege methods that the Jin army might use.

Knowing that the Jin army was ready to siege the city, Jiang Liang climbed the city wall with a flat-top helmet and thorn armor to observe the Jin army's formation from a distance. , looks daunting.

If I had to make a comparison, it would be like being surrounded by a group of hungry man-eating wolves in the wilderness, with no way out, only the eyes of green wolves.

These starving wolves stared at their prey, grinning, ready to swarm up and bite their prey's throat.

It's that sense of sight.

Jiang Liangping was not afraid, but he also felt his scalp tingling. For the first time, he felt how vulnerable the weaker side was in the face of absolute strength.

It feels like they are the only city in the whole world that is still resisting.

Without such a solid war fortress, their [-] regular army would easily be overwhelmed by the crowds brought by Wanyan Liang.

Jiang Liangping swallowed his saliva and took a few deep breaths to gradually ease his nervousness.

Jiang Liangping is from an old man of the Su family. He was the first to follow Su Yonglin to the north to rebel. He was born at the seaside and belonged to a family of fishermen. His earliest name was Jiang Xiaoyu.

Before Su Yonglin led them to rebel, he concentrated on changing the names of those with unpleasant names among them. Jiang Xiaoyu changed his name to Jiang Liangping at that time.

Fighting all the way, he changed from a simple and kind fisherman's child Jiang Xiaoyu to a private salt dealer who licked blood with a knife, and then became Jiang Liangping, a soldier of the Restoration Army under the education of Su Yonglin.

As a rising star with the best military exploits and the best military theory among the middle-level officers, Su Yonglin entrusted him with the task of defending Hejian City and expressed his ardent expectations for him.

So no matter what, he can't fall behind, can't let this war fortress fall in his hands.

After making up his mind, Jiang Liangping took out a small wooden tube-shaped thing from his pocket, then stretched the little thing, held it up, and looked into his eyes.

Before the battle, Su Yonglin gave each of the thirty guards a piece of this thing called clairvoyance.

It is said that it is the latest product of the Ordnance Department. It can clearly see things far away, just like conjuring a trick. However, the output is not high, and only one per person can be used.

When Jiang Liangping first got this thing, he thought it was a good thing. He really didn't think about it.

Of course, he doesn't care how this thing achieves this effect, as long as he has this effect.

Standing on a high place on the city wall, he took out his clairvoyance, looked around at Jin Jun's lineup, and saw a lot of things that he couldn't see from a distance.

(End of this chapter)