Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 49: Five Paths (Continued)

Having said this, without waiting for the people around him to say anything, Emperor Zhao paused and continued coldly: "Jin Wushu just wants to demonstrate today, and I am determined to accompany him to the end, so you don't need to say anything more!"

Chen Gui had no choice but to give in.

Soon, something strange happened on the northern wall of Nanyang City... Suddenly, several walls were knocked open by the Song army from the inside, revealing several city gates hidden inside.

Needless to say, this was Chen Gui's design. It was a method to send troops to launch a surprise attack outside the city when necessary. It was also a means to secretly send Emperor Zhao out when necessary. But at this time, it was forced to be exposed in advance by Emperor Zhao himself.

It is said that Chen Gui behaved extremely passively today, but this was not because Minister Chen was incompetent or because he lacked decisiveness. Rather, the battle today was completely different from Chen Gui's idea of ​​defending the city from the very beginning.

Chen Gui painstakingly designed and built a defense system for the city of Nanyang. From the inner and outer double trenches of the Yangma Wall, to the completely new design on the city wall, to many other things, it was basically an idea that followed the characteristics of artillery warfare and then utilized the depth of the city defense to kill and exhaust the enemy as much as possible.

This idea actually coincides with Emperor Zhao's.

However, before entering the artillery battle stage, it must be said that Minister Chen's thinking was generally conservative.

As for today's battle? In fact, it was out of Chen Gui's control from the very beginning.

The cause of all this was none other than Emperor Zhao and the fourth prince of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Wushu. The two supreme commanders of the two armies, taking advantage of the new tunnel, almost had a tacit understanding and kept micromanaging and increasing the stakes, and their respective decisions were extremely quick.

It is more like showing each other's determination rather than countering each other's moves.

In this situation, what can the people below do even if they are rational?

Don’t you see, even Du Mingming turned off the radio deliberately, but he still couldn’t escape the guidance of the supreme commander, let alone people like Chen Shangshu and Han Wanhu who were already in front of the supreme commander?

Back to the present, with the orders of Emperor Zhao, the battle under the city wall and behind the inner moat quickly entered a new stage.

So far, the Jin army's escalation has actually reached its limit, because they are constrained by the speed of the troops at the tunnel entrance. The Song army's combat power was originally slightly inferior, especially after the passive cessation of long-range projection on the city wall, it seemed a little weak, but fortunately there were still multiple city gates that could be used, and they could flexibly send out large numbers of troops from the city gates to fight in rotation.

Therefore, the battle under the city soon entered a crazy and seemingly meaningless state of consumption.

But whether it was Zhao Jiu on the top of the city wall or Wanyan Wushu who was hundreds of steps away, neither side wavered at all.

In fact, the battle lasted until sunset, and both sides were even prepared for a night battle!

However, the Song army soldiers suddenly discovered that the wet felt cloth on the corridor had already been dried, and then they immediately launched rockets filled with gunpowder above the corridor... As the five corridors lit up the night sky like five torches, and meandered in the twilight like five fire dragons, the day's fighting came to an end.