Wan Yan Sheng, Wan Yan Zongwang are all the sons of Wan Yan Aguta. Wan Yan Sheng is the eldest son, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom, and his status is quite high. It's just that this man is a bit belligerent, and when he was a child, he relied on his fists to make a name for himself in the area north of Pi Dehydration, and there are many followers.

Wanyan Zongwang's ability is only stronger than Wanyan Sheng, and in the early years, he followed his father to fight on the battlefield, and his military achievements were impressive, and he was known as the second prince.

This time, Tang Ning led the army to the Northern Expedition, because Wanyan Agu fought against the Liao people in the Jiashan area, and the affairs of Huining Mansion in Beijing were handed over to Wanyan Sheng and the ministers to deal with.

thought that Wanyan Lou Room could easily defeat Tang Ning, but he never thought that the 80,000 reinforcements he led were completely wiped out by the Song army on Yanshan Fu Road, and he also ended up in a different place.

At this time, Jin Cai paid attention to it.

Wan Yan Sheng listened to the advice of his uncle, who was also the minister of the Jin State, and sent his younger brother Wan Yan Zongwang to lead 120,000 reinforcements from Luanshui to the south, galloping to the aid of several state capitals on Yanshanfu Road, and blocking the Song army from continuing north.

However, the speed of the Ninth Route Army attacking the city was too fast, and when Yan Zongwang set off, Youzhou had already fallen. When he arrived at the Gubei Pavilion, he heard that the Song army was already attacking Danzhou City.

He was very anxious and wanted to go full speed ahead to support Danzhou. But the veteran around him advised him to be cautious.

"The second prince, the Song dog surnamed Tang is very cunning, he likes to pretend to besiege a city, but he sends ambushes to set up ambushes on the way through which reinforcements must pass, and then defeats them in one fell swoop.

General Hu Liyan was on his way, and when he was eager to support Canzhou, he was caught off guard.

The second prince, the last general suggested that it is better to be cautious. The terrain of Danzhou is uneven, and the capital city is condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack. I can't wait! ”

As soon as Wanyan Zongwang heard that it was reasonable, he sent 3,000 cavalry as scouts to carefully search all the way along the road where the army was about to advance, preventing Tang Ning from setting up an ambush here.

However, Tang Ning was in the sweat at this time, commanding the soldiers to attack the city of Danzhou.

He didn't plan to meet the reinforcements of the Jin State from the beginning, and he left 30,000 soldiers and horses in Youzhou and 15,000 in Shunzhou.

Counting these battle losses, Tang Ning's troops only had less than 150,000 troops.

The movements of the Jin army, Wu Desi had already detected them. They brought with them a full 40,000 cavalry, 10,000 of whom were still feared heavy cavalry Tiefutu.

Going head-to-head with them, you don't have any advantage at all. No matter how weak the Iron Floating Tu cavalry is, it can withstand two infantry, and there is no advantage in terms of strength at all.

Therefore, when Tang Ning learned that the reinforcements of the Jin State had arrived at the Gubei Pavilion, he immediately ordered to attack Danzhou City.

As long as you take the city and fight a defensive battle with them, you can be invincible.

In siege warfare, cavalry could not play the role of even half of the infantry.

The Jurchens did not have the ability of the Mongols to rely on cavalry to quickly attack cities, and their cavalry was not afraid of the strategy of suddenly attacking individual enemy cities in a short period of time.

Besides, Tang Ning made up his mind to only defend Danzhou City, and the other county seats, even if they were demolished, it had nothing to do with Tang Ning, so even if the Jurchens had the tactics of the Mongols, what was the use?

Anyway, it is not those county towns that guard this traffic artery, but Danzhou City.

The morale of the defenders in Danzhou City was quite low, and they could not get information under the siege of the Song army, and they did not know where the reinforcements in the rear had arrived now.

Moreover, it took less than five days for the Song army to enter the territory of Danzhou from the beginning of its entry into Shunzhou. This terrifying speed terrified the defenders of Danzhou City.

The soldiers who had fled from Shunzhou earlier said that the Song army knew witchcraft, and they had captured the city of Shunzhou, and the defenders of Danzhou were still quite unbelieving at that time.

But now it seems that this is really the case.

It is a disadvantage that the general cannon cannot be used to attack Danzhou, because the Song army will have to defend this city for a period of time, so the city wall is missing, which is also very disadvantageous for the Song army.

In this way, the attack on Danzhou City can only be seen under the hands.

However, the terrain of Danzhou City is relatively high, the city is condescending, and the rolling wood and stones cannot be stopped, and the Song army encountered a lot of obstacles when attacking the city.

For this reason, Lu Qiren thought of the bulldozing method.

This is a time-consuming and labor-intensive siege tactic, and the first time Downing heard of it was in a foreign battle.

The Romans marched into Israel, captured Jerusalem, and then ~ attacked the last Jewish city, Masada.

However, the city of Masada built by King Herod was unusually strong, and the terrain was also located in an easy and difficult position to defend. In addition, the granaries in the city were well supplied and the water source was also due to the canals to collect rainwater, so the Jews, who did not worry about eating and drinking, were united in defending the city of Masada for three years.

In the end, the Romans used the bulldozing method to build a mound of earth at the same height as the mountain on the edge of the city of Masada, and piled up a slope under the city wall, so that the soldiers could directly enter the city of Masada, and then the city of Masada was breached.

According to Lu Qiren, Emperor Yang of Sui and Emperor Taizong of Tang used the same tactics when they attacked Goryeo, but this was undoubtedly time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Now every night for a second, the reinforcements of the Jin State will arrive a second earlier. If it was the Zhenguo Army, Tang Ning would not be so eager, but the Ninth Route Army was not an experienced veteran after all.

The army sent from Shangjing, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, how bad can it be? Fighting with them in the field, Tang Ning really didn't have the confidence.

When Lu Qiren heard it, he felt that it was the same reason. So I thought of another plan, and simply repaired the plank road openly and Chen Cang in the dark. On the surface, they used the bulldozing method to confuse the defenders, but in fact, they sent sappers to dig tunnels day and night into the city of Danzhou.

This one

The method is good, Tang Ning thought about it, if he sent six groups of sappers, divided into three groups, each group of twelve hours without stopping, digging three tunnels to enter Danzhou City, two days should be enough.

Thinking of this, Tang Ning ordered to act according to the plan.

The Song army's offensive suddenly stopped, and the Jin soldiers in Danzhou City breathed a sigh of relief.

The Danzhou guards took the opportunity to run to the city wall to check the movements of the Song army, and suddenly found that they were digging dirt with shovels to pile up dirt outside the city.

"What does that mean?" The guard was stunned for a moment, and Zhizhou stroked his beard and replied: "This is the bulldozing method, by building a mound of earth at the same height as the city wall, to shoot the enemy on the city wall, to provide cover for the attacking troops under the city." ”

The guard blinked and said, "Your Song people's heads are really amazing, you can come up with such a solution." Do you want to send someone to wreak havoc? Are we just going to watch them do it? ”

"Huh." Zhizhou waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, the bulldozing method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and when they have almost piled up the soil, the reinforcements led by the second prince should also arrive here."

General, we should be able to rest well these days. ”

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Two days passed in a flash, and in the past two days, Song Jun and Jin Jun have spent their lives in tension and anxiety.

Tang Ning demanded that the scouts must report back three times a day, and after detecting the movement of the Jin reinforcements, they must notify themselves as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the scouts who had been released seventy miles away for the past two days didn't seem to have detected anything, and that's a good thing.

The sappers in the tunnel reported today, saying that they had reached the bottom of Danzhou City. As long as Tang Ning gave an order and created some movement for them in the front, the soldiers hidden in the tunnel could enter the city of Danzhou in one fell swoop.

Tang Ning readily agreed, and was about to send troops to attack, but a scout ran back in a panic and reported to Tang Ning that Wanyan Zongwang's reinforcements had arrived seventy miles away, and were now advancing rapidly, and they were probably going to be nearby in three hours.

When Tang Ning heard this, he hurriedly ordered the troops. sent Xiaoshi and other fierce generals to enter the tunnel, and strive to take Danzhou City in the first time.

The Danzhou guard was having breakfast on the city tower, and he was in a very comfortable mood when he looked at the Song army who was working hard to pile up the mound.

Suddenly, he found that those Song soldiers had dropped their shovels and picked up weapons, and his heart jumped. The next moment, sure enough, the Song army began to assemble, and then launched an attack on Danzhou City.

"All troops on alert!"

The Danzhou guard's voice was broken.

"Kill!" The city suddenly shouted and killed the sky, and the sky was full of arrows that instantly shrouded the heads of both sides.

At the same time, there seemed to be a sudden burst of shouts of killing in the city.

"It's authentic! Song Jun dug a tunnel! ”

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