At this time, there were only more than 10,000 people in the Jin army's navy on the Yangtze River, with a total of more than 300 warships, nearly half of which were sea vessels, and the other half were fishing boats and merchant ships requisitioned from the banks of the Yangtze River, and now they are all anchored in the water village on the Yangtze River in Jiankang Mansion. ★ Si ~ Lu ~ Zhong ~ Wen ~ Net Member seek hand hit ★ the water army to control Zou Huan and Tang Zhun. The two never thought that the Song Dynasty naval army, which had been attacking Jiangbei, would suddenly attack them, but the Song army had already killed in front of them, so they had to lead the fleet out to meet them.

The fleets of the two sides of the Song army launched a fierce battle on the river at the junction of Jiankang Fu and Hezhou, the Jin army's naval army was far inferior to the Song army in terms of strength, warships, quality, and weapons, Li Bao was a veteran of water battles, and it was against the current against the downstream, where was the opponent of the Song army, and the Song army was disturbed by a few charges, and then there was a burst of fierce rocket artillery, which killed the Jin army's warships one after another, and the soldiers were dizzy, and were defeated by the Song army, and in less than an hour, they were sunk by the Song army Nearly 100 warships.

As soon as Zou Huan and Tang Zhun saw that the situation was not good, they knew that the Jin army would be defeated, and they did not dare to continue the battle against Xiayun, so they immediately turned the bow of the ship and retreated to Jiankang. But Li Bao didn't let go at all, led the fleet, followed closely behind, chased until the edge of Jiankang City, and followed the defeated army into the naval army. The Jin army was powerless to stop the Song army, and was killed by the Song army into the village and set fire everywhere. Although the Jin army on the shore received the news and rushed to reinforce it, they were suffering from the lack of ships, and they could only stand in the waterway and stare dryly, and there was nothing they could do.

Seeing that the water village was broken by the Song army, Zou Huan and Tang Zhun also knew that if they didn't run again, they would only be trapped and killed by the Song army, so they escaped from Dazhai with the remaining warships, and Zou Huan led seventy or eighty warships from the Qinhuai River to escape into Mochou Lake to take refuge. And Tang Zheng took more than 100 warships down the river and fled to Zhenjiang Mansion.

The water surface of the Yangtze River in the Jiankang area is very wide, and there are several Jiangzhou of different sizes distributed in the center of the river, after the Song army's naval army defeated the Jin army, it did not return, Li Bao ordered all the warships to stay and anchor at the edge of the continent, completely blockade the river, and never allow any ships of the Jin country to approach Jiankang.

Three days later, Li Xianzhong's army also rushed to the north bank of the Yangtze River in Hezhou. Li Bao left 300 warships to continue to garrison the Yangtze River. All the other warships turned back to Hezhou to meet the Song army across the river.

The Jin general guarding the Jiankang Mansion was called Jiagu Jichen, and at this time he didn't understand, and now the Song army was going to cross the Yangtze River and attack Jiankang. I was immediately frightened. Although Jiankang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is no shortage of grain and grass materials in the city, there are only 30,000 gold soldiers in the city now, plus more than 10,000 troops from the Southern Song Dynasty, which can block the attack of the Song Dynasty's army.

Three days later, Jiagu Jichen received a reply from Lin'an, saying that the right deputy marshal Wanyan Changzhi would lead an army of 130,000 to rescue Jiankang.

After receiving the palindrome, Jiagu Jichen felt a little more relieved. However, at this time, the main army of the Song army crossed the Yangtze River through Hezhou, and now the area around Taiping Prefecture was assembled, and the vanguard arrived at the southern city of Jiankang. Jiagu Jichen's heart couldn't help but rise again, and now he could only hope that the reinforcements would arrive soon.

Jiangning Town is located thirty miles southwest of Jiankang Mansion, across the river from the Wujiang River, where the overlord of Chu killed himself, and is now Li Xianzhong's temporary headquarters in Jiangbei.

At this time, Yang Yan had also led 70,000 troops to garrison the front line of Lishui, and was actively preparing to block the Jin army. The news was transmitted back by Lin'an's fine work that the Jin army intended to abandon Lin'an and return to China in the north, and Wanyan Changzhi gathered 130,000 troops and prepared to come to support Jiankang.

On the second day after Li Xianzhong arrived in Jiangnan, Yang Yan rushed to Jiangning Town, met with Li Xianzhong, and discussed the arrangements for the two armies to cooperate in the capture of Jiankang. and sent Li Xianzhong a batch of firearms, a hundred bed crossbows, and tens of thousands of people collected to help Li Xianzhong capture Jiankang. Li Xianzhong was naturally very happy and thanked Yang Yan repeatedly. In return, Li Xianzhong transferred 120 warships from Guyu River into Danyang Lake to help Yang Yan block the Jin army.

It turned out that after Yang Yan received Yang Yizhong's letter, he couldn't help but be grateful to Yang Yizhong for his hard work. He was not a person who was greedy for utilitarianism, as long as he could defeat the Jin army, whoever made meritorious service would be the same, so he decided to work hard to cooperate with Li Xianzhong and capture Jiankang. Because this is the first time that the two armies have cooperated in combat, there are some things that must be discussed in advance to avoid unnecessary accidents.

At this time, the Song army crossed the Yangtze River, and there were more than 100,000 men and horses. It's just that the siege equipment and other materials have not yet arrived, Li Xianzhong originally planned to wait a little longer, and after the men and horses and equipment arrived, he began to attack Jiankang, but now that Lin'an has sent reinforcements, Li Xianzhong knows that time is urgent, and he can't afford to wait any longer. Therefore, Li Xianzhong and Yang Yan openly discussed the details of attacking Jiankang and blocking the Jin army, as well as cooperating with each other, and also agreed that the two would pass on their progress to each other every day, and in case of emergency, they would pass on news and so on.

After obtaining the unification of the proposal, Yang Yan left Jiangning Town that night and returned to Lishui for defense. The next day, Li Xianzhong also immediately ordered troops to attack Jiankang.

Jiankang Mansion is built by water, only the southeast two sides are 6 places, there is Xuanwu Lake in the north, there is Qinhuai River in the west, and it must rely on the water army to attack. However, the waterway of Xuanwu Lake on the north side is too shallow and narrow, and the big ships of the navy cannot enter at all, and only the Qinhuai River in the west can take big boats, so the focus of the navy's attack should be on the west city, and the north city can only play a leading role. The main direction of attack in the 6 places was in the south city, and only the exit to the east was left for the Jin soldiers to escape.

According to Li Xianzhong's plan, he would lead the army to attack the southern city, Li Bao would lead the naval army to attack the western city, and Guo Zhen would be sent to lead 20,000 horses to garrison Dongyang Town in the east of Jiankang Mansion to prevent the Jin army from Zhenjiang Mansion from coming to support. However, now the navy still needs to transport siege equipment, so for the time being, it can only attack from the southern city. But fortunately, it is not yet the official siege, but some preparations before the siege.

In the past few days, Jiagu Jichen has been nervous, because the Song army has come to the city with economic troops, but the reinforcements have not yet been seen. Although the Song army is currently only stationed outside the two cities in the southeast, for the defending side, it cannot only take care of the southeast and southeast sides, and must be deployed on all four sides. This is the disadvantage of defending the city, it must be exhaustive, unlike the attacking side, which can concentrate its forces and choose to attack a little.

Of course, during this period of time, Jiagu Jichen did not just hope for reinforcements, and did not do anything else. Instead, it has been fully arranged in Jiankang City. Jiagu Jichen knew that at the time of Guanjian, he could not fully trust the surrender of the Southern Song Dynasty, and if he wanted to hold Jiankang, he had to rely on the Jin army. Therefore, the 30,000 Jin army was deployed, and 10,000 defenders were arranged in the south city where the Song army was mainly attacked, 5,000 defenders were arranged in the east city, and only 2,500 people were arranged to guard the west and north cities where the Song army did not attack for the time being, leaving 10,000 people as reserve troops. At the same time, twelve trebuchets and fifteen bed crossbows were arranged in the southern city. This is currently the only large-scale long-range attack weapon in Jiankang City.

The more than 10,000 Southern Song troops in the city were divided into two parts, half of which remained in the city to maintain order, and the other half were distributed in the four cities to assist the Jin soldiers in defending the city. Jiagu Jichen demolished hundreds of houses in the city, supplemented the stones, bricks, tiles and timber as weapons to defend the city, and forcibly recruited tens of thousands of people from the residents of the city to serve as laborers, help transport supplies, treat the wounded, and so on.

By the time the Song army arrived at the city of Jiankang, everything in the city was ready, just waiting for the Song army to attack the city. Moreover, Jiagu Shenchen also got the news that the reinforcements arrived in Lishui, less than 100 miles away from Jiankang Mansion, but they encountered the resistance of the Song army, and once they broke through the resistance of the Song army, they could rush to Jiankang. Therefore, at this time, Jiagu Shenchen had a little confidence, he could only do this step, and only hoped that Wanyan Changzhi would break through the defense line of the Song army as soon as possible and rush to Jiankang.

To the surprise of Jiagu Jichen, after the Song army arrived at the city, they were not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, ditches were dug and fortified around the southern city of Jiankang Mansion to completely block the outside of the southern city of Jiankang.

The Jin army was good at field warfare, while the Song army was good at defending the city. But those who are good at defending cities must be good at attacking cities, and in terms of attack and defense of large cities, the ability of the Song army has always been superior to that of the Jin army. Of course, Li Xianzhong knew that for attacking a fortified city like Jiankang, although the current defenders in the city were insufficient, it could not be treated like an ordinary state city. Because it was before the Song army's large-scale siege equipment such as cloud ladders and tower carts were not delivered, if they blindly attacked, they could only end up losing troops and demolishing generals, and the end was in vain. Therefore, it is better to use this time to make adequate preparations.

Therefore, in the first few days, the Song army dug deep trenches all around the south of Jiankang Mansion, tens of thousands of troops together with more than 100,000 people who were requisitioned, and the excavation work was carried out very quickly, often several miles of trenches could be dug in one day, because the excavations were carried out in the trenches, the bows and arrows of the Jin army defending the city could not be shot, so it only took a few days, and the trench communication road outside the southern city of Jiankang Mansion was roughly formed.

These moats are all up to zhang deep, the width is up to two zhang, and the use of the hills outside the city, set up a number of wooden villages with strong defensive power, surrounded by trap pits, only the passage in and out remains, connected by the moats, two of which are only more than 100 steps away from the city wall, and the farthest ditch, to dig to less than 50 steps away from the city wall of Jiankang. In this way, it will not be possible to hide the forces of the attack, and it will greatly limit the chances of the defenders to counterattack or break through. And on the trenches lay wooden planks, which could not only shield the stones of the Jin army, protect the soldiers in the trenches with bows and arrows, but also provide for the passage of the besieging army and large instruments.

Jiagu Jichen was also a fairly experienced general, but like most Jin generals, he was more adept at field warfare than offensive and defensive battles in cities. In fact, when the Jin Dynasty invaded the south, it rarely led large-scale urban offensive and defensive battles, and in this regard, the Jin Dynasty generals generally lacked experience. Therefore, when the Song army first began to dig the trench, Jiagu Jichen did not care, but thought that the Song army would not come to attack the city, but could be happy and relaxed, waiting for reinforcements.

However, although Jiagu Shenchen could not fully understand the intentions of the Song army, he also felt that the Song army could not be allowed to proceed like this, and seeing that the bow and arrow could not hit the Song army, he sent troops to attack twice to harass the Song army's excavation work. But the Song army also prepared the vigilance of the troops, the men and horses were hiding in the trenches, usually invisible, as soon as the Jin army attacked, they also immediately came out to meet the battle.

The two sides fought fiercely and suffered damage to each other, but both times they successfully blocked the attack of the Jin army, so that the excavation work was not greatly affected. And the strength of the Jin army to defend the city was insufficient, and Jiagu Jichen did not dare to waste his troops in such vain, so he did not dare to send troops to attack again.

A few days later, after the initial formation of the ditch around the city, the Song army piled up several earthen mountains up several zhang high outside the city, and the wall of Jiankang was still high, and all of them were within a distance of about two or three hundred steps from Jiankang Mansion. And within a distance of one hundred and fifty steps from the city wall, more than ten arrow towers more than five zhang high were erected, and they desperately seized the commanding heights around the southern city of Jiankang Mansion. It was used to suppress the Jin army with bows and arrows during the siege of the city, and to cover the Song army besieging the city.

Of course, when the Song army built these fortifications, they were all carried out outside the trenches, so they all braved the rain of arrows of the Jin army, and although they did protective measures, they also paid the price of hundreds of people.

Moreover, while Li Xianzhong was building various fortifications outside Jiankang City, he also built a camp made of wood and stone on the hilly heights in the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River, in case the Jin army bypassed Yang Yan's defense line in Lishui and rushed to rescue Jiankang.

Although the Song army has not directly attacked the city in the past few days, the trenches, wooden villages, earth mountains, and arrow towers all over the city are gradually approaching the city wall of Jiankang City, attacking and defending at the same time, and posing a greater pressure on the defenders than the onslaught.

At this time, Jiagu Jichen also knew that it was not good, and he couldn't help but regret it greatly, and he couldn't care about losing his troops, so he constantly sent troops from the city to attack, trying to fill the trenches near the city and destroy the fortifications of the Song army. But with the dug trench successfully blocked the Jin army's attack, the Jin army's cavalry also shrank and could not wave, and the Song army had already prepared, so the Jin army attacked several times and lost hundreds of soldiers, but all in vain, even if a small section of the trench could be filled, but when the Jin army retreated into the city, it was soon dug up by the Song army.

Jiagu Jichen knew the strength of these fortifications of the Song army, and secretly complained in his heart, but he had nothing to do, so he could only hope that reinforcements would arrive.

And at this time, the Song army successfully occupied more than a dozen commanding heights outside the city, placed the bed crossbow on the earth mountain, and shot at Jiankang City. Together with each arrow tower, they also continued to shoot arrows into Jiankang City to fight back against the Jin army.

Jiagu Jichen knew that under such circumstances, once the Song army launched a full-scale attack, he might not be able to hold out for three or five days. And it's been a few days, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet. In desperation, Jiagu Jichen had no choice but to continue to tell Wanyan Changzhi to urge him to hurry up to Jiankang.

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