The other party thinks that he is a fool and doesn’t know how to dig a trench?

Could there be an inside job?

While Gao Jingshan was thinking, the Song army's goose carts were approaching the city wall. Without time to think, he turned around and ordered his subordinates to go up to the city wall for defense and prepare for a rockfall attack... Stones were very precious. Basically, all of them were fired by the Song army in the past few days. The Song army was very cunning. After the fortifications on the top of the city were worn down, most of the projectiles turned into hard mud balls that had been polished and dried. This kind of projectile was still very lethal to humans, and would explode once it hit the ground, so it could not be used by the Jin army.

When facing a goose cart, mud balls are mostly useless. You still have to rely on stones and hooks, and more importantly, gunpowder and fuel for burning.

"Marshal, please use a little more force!" Wanyan Wushu, who could not see the specific details but could still see the Song army's offensive from a few miles to the west, could not help but whisper to Balisu beside him in the biting cold wind. "There are some things that I still need to explain to the Bohai Wanhu... Besides, there must be some reserves in the city. If Yue Fei suddenly captures it and there is no time to burn it, it will be disadvantageous to the situation."

Balisu was silent for a while. After a while, he turned around and looked at a Wanhu from Datong. The latter understood, shook his head and left.

In fact, what caused the Jin army to finally change its strategy was not the failure of the second general offensive due to the cold wave. In other words, there was another reason for the failure of the second general offensive - the scouts behind them reported that after the Song army broke through Queshu Valley, they suddenly attacked northward at an astonishing speed.

Just from the time sequence of the messengers sent out before several important towns were besieged, and the time sequence of several mountain passes in Taihang Mountains being blocked, the Jin army also realized that the main force of the Song army, and even including the Zhao Song official, the man who liked to sign his name as Zhao Jiu of Cangzhou, had arrived directly at the city of Taiyuan.

This news, coupled with the speed of the march and the scale of the army, really shocked the high-ranking officials of the Jin army in Hebei, especially the several Wanhu in Hedong Road, including Marshal Balisu, who quickly changed their positions and began to give up their insistence on Yuancheng. And if it failed, they could also take advantage of the situation to open the river to prevent Yue Fei's troops from going north, and the plan to block the river was also supported by Balisu at that time.

However, as the saying goes, everyone is more worried about Taiyuan, a few have begun to think about Zhending or Hejian, and some people are still concerned about Yuancheng... The new Wanhu Pu Suyue is fine, but Shaohe's attitude is particularly firm, and the Jin army's top leaders must consider the attitude of this powerful Wanhu.

The Jin army suddenly intensified its offensive on the river, which caught the Song army off guard, but this did not delay the advance under the city. Finally, two huge siege towers that completely matched the height of the Yuan city walls were also started.

Gao Jingshan became a little nervous and focused more on the two siege towers. However, the good news was that he could clearly feel that the sun seemed to be gradually moving westward.

This meant that time was running out and he just had to hold on.

By the way, if Gao Jingshan in Daming Prefecture was persisting in despair, then Wanyan Zhehe in Taiyuan Prefecture was in a strange mood at this time, because the Zhao Song officials in the south of the city seemed to be holding a banquet and conducting a formation that was obviously a performance.

The scene was grand. On the general platform in front of the Song army camp, which had just been built with rammed earth two days ago, there were tables and desks spread out widely, and countless officers, close ministers and aides were sitting in rows. Although the specific movements could not be seen clearly, the afternoon sun, coupled with the reflection of a little snow, made the vision clear. Wanyan Zhehe on the city wall could clearly perceive that there was someone behind the table placed in the middle under the dragon flag, and there seemed to be many things placed on the table.

In fact, it does not seem to be something incomprehensible to hold a banquet at this time, because it is the New Year. A banquet is held under the city, a military parade is conducted, and then generous rewards are given to boost morale of the troops, and to intimidate the people in the city by displaying military strength and supplies.

If you think about it this way, even Wanyan Zhehe, who said last night that Emperor Zhao was not the kind of person who would feast before a battle, felt that it made some sense.

But he was still caught in a complex emotion of confusion, vigilance, suspicion and astonishment, and his brows were furrowed.

Because he still could not accept that the Zhao Song official who defeated Wanyan Loushi would do such a thing - at the same time, countless Song soldiers and civilians were still digging pits and building embankments beside the Fen River west of the city as usual, and dozens of newly built goose carts were advancing from the east, north and south, continuing the previous work of removing the deer camp and destroying the sheep and horse wall.

This kind of thing happened every day before. Judging from the progress, it would take at least four or five days to completely destroy it. This was under the premise that Wanyan Zhehe endured and did not fire the artillery vehicles in the city.

And it was under such a circumstance that Emperor Zhao came out to feast in public and watched these ordinary things as if he were watching a drama.

At the same time, even tens of thousands of Song army soldiers were sitting in line in the snow on both sides of the general platform in front of the camp. They had eaten and drunk in front of the Jin army before, and now they were wearing full armor that was destined to be useless today, holding long spears, powerful crossbows, and axes that were also destined to be useless today, and they were like a guard of honor, posing for the people under the dragon flag in the middle, and also followed the official to watch the auxiliary soldiers and civilians do such ordinary things.

But what's so good about this?

Even with the protection of the goose carts, there are bound to be casualties... What's the point of eating and drinking while watching your soldiers die?

The man under the dragon banner was really the one who planted mulberry trees in the harem for seven or eight years as rumored, and who vowed to destroy the Jin Dynasty. In the span of ten years, he went from being an exiled official on the verge of national destruction to establishing himself in Nanyang, retaking Tokyo, defeating Loushi, and annihilating Western Xia. Has he become the Zhao Song official with a sword hanging over the heads of almost all the nobles of the Jin Dynasty?

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