Half a month later, Hebei Province, Jizhou Army Front Battalion.
Here is only ten miles away from the Great Wall defense line of the Great Song Dynasty, although the Jizhou Legion Battalion claims to have 500,000 troops, but in fact there are only 200,000, the entire Jizhou Legion does have 500,000 troops, but not all are offensive troops, in addition to the 200,000 troops in the front line battalion, there are 50,000 troops scattered in the rest of the place, and there are 250,000 soldiers and horses in the rear who are responsible for transporting grain and grass for the front-line army.
In the past few days, the guard of the Jizhou Legion front-line camp is very strict, and every night there will be horse-drawn carriages from the back door of the camp to the north slowly, if you enter the camp, you will find that in the Jizhou Legion front-line camp of the Chinese army's big tent, there are people constantly going in and out, and when you enter the Chinese army tent, you will find that this is not Li Qing's military tent at all, and there is a big pit in the big tent.
After Li Qing returned to the front line camp from Ziwei Palace, he immediately began to arrange in accordance with Li Liangzuo's military order, and Li Liangzuo gave a very simple way to break through the defense line of the Great Wall of the Song Army, that is, to dig a tunnel leading to the root of the Great Wall of the Song Army, and then fill the end of the tunnel with gunpowder, and completely blow up a gap in the Great Wall of the Song Army.
Outside the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Qing watched barrels of gunpowder being sent into the big tent, and then transported to the root of the Great Wall of the Song army through the tunnel.
In order to be able to blow up a gap in the Great Wall of the Song Army, Li Qing took out all the three thousand catties of gunpowder from his family, as for how powerful so much gunpowder exploded together, Li Qing himself didn't know, this was the first time in the world "Lord Wang, all the gunpowder has been transported in."
Yan Shu came out of the big tent of the Chinese army and said; "In order to contain this gunpowder, we dug a large hole under the root of the Great Wall, one zhang deep and three zhang wide; At present, craftsmen are sealing the hole with green bricks and leading the lead out. ” Xia Jun in order to dig through such a tunnel but a lot of effort, the entire tunnel passage is six feet high and three feet wide, can accommodate two people walking side by side upright, in order to dig such a tunnel, Xia Jun worked for half a month, because he did not know how powerful the gunpowder was, Xia Jun chose to dig a tunnel when he chose to dig a place, that is to say, the Song army has actually moved a large camp.
"With so much gunpowder, none of us knows how powerful it will be; The herald ordered the army to secretly retreat ten miles after sunset, leaving two people responsible for lighting the gunpowder, and it was necessary to ensure that the medicine twist could burn to the place.
Li Qing said very cautiously.
"Don't worry, in order to prevent accidents, in addition to the medicine twist, we also sprinkle gunpowder on the medicine twist, even if the medicine twist can't burn, isn't there still gunpowder," Yan Shu said; "And the burning distance of these ten miles has been calculated, and it will take about three incense sticks."
Li Qing took a deep breath and said: "Success or failure is here, whether you can break through the defense line of the Song army depends on tomorrow." ” At this moment, the king of the mountains, Li Ke, led a team of men and horses back, and Li Ke walked up to Li Qing's side and asked, "How are the preparations for the sixth child?"
"It's ready."
Li Qing said; "Fourth brother, how is the situation over there?"
"It has been basically found out, in order to prevent us from breaking through the Great Wall, the Song army has prepared 300,000 troops behind the Great Wall opposite us, and the Song army camp is under the Great Wall, so that they can enter the city at any time to fight."
Rick said.
"It seems that Song Jun is planning to fight hard this time."
Li Qing said: "Even if we can blow up the gap in the Great Wall, there is still a fierce battle to be fought. ” "That's a good point."
Leake said; "So we must be able to take it by surprise and launch an attack before the Song army reacts, and we must try to avoid casualties of our army."
"Then attack at dawn tomorrow."
Li Qing said; "Fourth brother, after sunset, you lead people to retreat first, we don't know how powerful so much gunpowder is, it's better to stay away, and the sound is so loud that everyone can block their ears, I don't want to lose before I attack."
"Yes, this king commands," said Li Ke.
That night, the Xia army began to quietly retreat, and at the same time, the Great Wall guards, who were responsible for guarding this area, were discussing the military situation with the generals in the Chinese army tent in the Song army camp; Regarding the matter of Xia Jun digging tunnels, in fact, the Song army guards already knew about it, and they also made corresponding countermeasures.
The Song army guard said to his subordinates: "During this time, although the Xia army also launched a few symbolic attacks, but that was just to cover up, the general has already obtained accurate information, the Xia army has dug a tunnel in the camp, and intends to dig through to the Great Wall, so this general asked you to dig a trench along the inside of the Great Wall, once the Xia army's tunnel is dug through, we will be able to find them as soon as possible."
"General's Name" "According to the time, Xia Jun's tunnel should be dug in two days."
Song Junshou will continue; "Therefore, it is necessary to be especially awake these days, especially at ten o'clock at dawn, which is the time when it is most likely to be neglected; The herald ordered the army to assemble at dawn tomorrow at the place where the Xia army was attacking, and there must be no mistake in the army to enter the city to defend it. ” "The last general commands," the generals of the Song army commanded.
In fact, if you put aside the tunnels dug by the Xia army, you will find that in fact, the tunnels of the Xia army are not far from the trenches of the Song army, and the closest place between the two sides is only fifty or sixty meters away, and the place where the Song army assembles is not too far from the place where the Xia army planted explosives, all this seems to have a fixed number, if the tunnel of the Xia army is estimated to be discovered by the Song army in a long way, then I am afraid it will be another scene.
In fact, the plan of the Song army guards is not so simple, at the end of the Song army's trench is actually connected to the canal, of course, at this time there is no complete digging, but a certain distance, and the canal embankment is loaded with explosives, as long as the Xia army's tunnel is dug through, the Song army defender will immediately order, the canal embankment to blow up a gap, let the river water pour into the trench, and then poured into the tunnel dug by the Xia army, and drown all the Xia troops in the tunnel.
Once the embankment is blown up, the entire front-line camp of the Xia army will be unlucky, due to the effect of water pressure, the river water will continue to pour into the front-line camp of the Xia army through trenches and tunnels, and the entrance of the front-line camp of the entire summer army will be like a fountain of water gushing outward, the entire summer army camp will be flooded, and Li Qing can only choose to retreat; The Song army guarded this plan, which can be said to be able to repel the Xia army without spending a single soldier.
The reason why the canal and trench were not dug before this was actually for the sake of safety, but also to facilitate the transfer of troops to defend the city, after all, there is a river behind the Great Wall, and there is always some trouble when transferring troops.
In addition, General Song was also afraid that once he dug up in advance, it would not be good to drown the Xia army instead of drowning himself.
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