After listening to Su Yonglin's idea, Xin Qiji admired it very much.

"The general's clever plan is admired by my subordinates! In this way, our army will become proactive again. Even if we want to siege the city, we don't need to use too many troops! We can trap them to death!"

“It’s not just that.”

Su Yonglin pointed to Zhending City: "If the dam is built, I will dig the dam and irrigate the city with water. How can Zhending City persist? It will inevitably be self-defeating!"

Xin Qiji nodded repeatedly and said yes.

But he soon thought of a question.

"General, the winter in Hebei is cold, and the rivers often have frozen and freezing days. If the rivers freeze when we start the war, then... it will be a big deal."

"I know, but we don't have a better choice. We must take a gamble. While it's not too cold, we should complete the besieged dam as much as possible. Even if it freezes at that time, at least there will be a solid earthen city that can still surround Zhending City."

After Su Yonglin said this, Xin Qiji had no choice but to nod.

"It is true. As long as you can surround Zhending City, you can turn off attack to defend and consume the city's food and fodder needs. No matter what, it will be beneficial to our army."

So Su Yonglin immediately summoned all the generals of the army to inform the plan, let the entire army know about it, and then began civil engineering.

Dam construction cannot be threatened by the defenders in the city, so it must be beyond the range of the bed crossbow, so that the defenders cannot threaten the dam construction in the city.

Because it has the effect of storing water, the dam must have a certain strength and cannot be collapsed by water. In that case, the flood will rush the Dragon King Temple and Su Yonglin will destroy himself with water attack. That would be too funny.

The strength of the Hutuo River embankment also needs to be examined. How to dig it out safestly and will not cause a large flood of the Hutuo River water. This is also a professional issue.

Otherwise, it would be funny if the war was not fought yet and the people would be drowned.

Therefore, Su Yonglin needs professional talents to guide construction and cannot do anything randomly.

Fortunately, the hodgepodge of the Restoration Army was mixed with all kinds of people, and Su Yonglin really found relevant water conservancy talents, a group of craftsmen with rich experience in dam construction.

After discussing with them, Su Yonglin learned that the water in the winter is currently in a dry winter period, and the water volume of the Hutuo River is not large, and the danger of digging the embankment is relatively small, which is not as terrifying as the water abundance period.

As long as the new dam has a certain strength, it is equivalent to tickling the Hutuo River, which will not affect the overall situation and will not cause the river to flood. Remedies afterwards are relatively simple.

Of course, the biggest risk is that the river freezes, so everything will be done, and this tactic will become quite embarrassing.

However, there are no signs of freezing on the river at present, and the temperature is not so low that it is unbearable. Su Yonglin believes that there is still time to take action and complete the offensive as soon as possible, so that he can conquer Zhending City at the lowest cost.

It is also very interesting to dare to flood the Zhending City before the freezing, and then you will be able to get a frozen Zhending City.

After making some safety arguments, Su Yonglin made the decision and left no matter how much he was, just start working and seize the time.

He did what he said. Under the guidance of professionals, the coalition forces began to select a site on the tenth day of November and broke ground.

While using the army to monitor the city's operations, we also built large-scale construction outside the city, digging soil, building embankments, and creating a simple version of artificial dam.

Not to mention, the project was quite large, and Su Yonglin wanted to complete it as soon as possible, so he urgently transferred the civilians from the Nanban coalition control area to help, paying wages per day, including the generals, and getting about 100,000 laborers.

So everyone started working hard and the project progressed very quickly.

The dam was built closer to Zhending City than the military camp.

Su Yonglin planned to use a circle of dams to store water at that time, and the other circle outside was a coalition military camp, giving him two blockade lines to lock them up.

However, while he was working hard to do great things, Su Yonglin received important information from the intelligence troops led by Su Yin.

A Jin army had set out from the Jin imperial capital and marched south to Mozhou north of Hejian Prefecture. The intention was unknown, but the size of this army was quite large, with a population of about 20,000, all cavalry and many war horses, which were quite elite.

The intelligence team has passed the relevant information to Sun Ziyi's Shenwu Army. Sun Ziyi has obtained the information and is already alert.

Su Yonglin also became alert.

Wanyan Liang finally realized that the Central Army of the Jin Kingdom was here.

It's still an elite cavalry of 20,000.

On a large flat ground like Hebei, 20,000 elite cavalry are worth several times the elite infantry. If both sides set up a battle, they will not rely on the terrain, military camps or cities, even if the infantry wins, they will not be able to pursue them.

It is difficult to expand the results of the battle.

Once defeated by the cavalry, it will basically end up being wiped out.

It's coming very quickly...

Su Yonglin frowned.

Judging from the current situation, the Central Army of the Jin Kingdom obviously planned to take Hejian Prefecture first, then advance westward from Hejian Prefecture along the Hutuo River, and directly come to Zhending Prefecture to encircle and suppress his troops.

If Sun Ziyi of Hejian Mansion cannot stop this Jin soldier, it will take a few days for the Jin soldiers to arrive in Zhending Mansion, and it is difficult to say that the project on his side can be completed before.

And I don’t know if the Jin army will have follow-up troops to directly take Zhending Mansion.

If you really want to fight on your side, you will easily be attacked by the Jin soldiers in the city from inside to outside and attacked on both sides.

No, the construction period must be accelerated and the strategy must be changed.

Su Yonglin convened a meeting of relevant personnel and conveyed the latest requirements.

Because the Jin cavalry came to attack, in order to deal with the Jin cavalry coming to attack, he planned to build the dam to the outside layer thicker, and then build the military camp on it and create a condescending environment manually.

This strategy is like the dirt city that siege troops needed to build in the past without powerful long-range attack weapons.

When large siege equipment such as catapults were not born, the army would have to build a dirt city when siege. Some troops built dirt city higher than the city wall, and archers fired arrows on it to attack the defenders on the city wall, forming a strategic confrontation.

Su Yonglin also wants to do this.

The water-storing dam is built as a dirt city, and the military camps located on the flat ground must also be set up on the dirt city. In this way, even if the elite Jin army cavalry will rescue the camps, the cavalry will attack from the top, and the impact deterrence will be greatly reduced.

If the attack is urgent and the logistics are threatened, the dam will be dug and the water will rush.

On the muddy land, four horse legs are not better than two human legs, and the advantages of cavalry are gone. Everyone is fighting against soldiers and generals, and see the true chapter.

Whether it is rushing outside or inside, whether it is rushing to the cavalry or Zhending City, one will be destroyed, and if one is trashed, the other will not survive.

Isn’t the so-called art of war just trying every means to make oneself invincible?

That is, the project volume is a little larger.

However, the young and strong labor force of 100,000 people can carry out this project no matter how hard it is.

As long as time is time, the key is time.

"The project must be completed before the Jin bandit reinforcements arrive and the water will be stored successfully! As long as all soldiers do not have military tasks, they will go to the building. The faster the better, and there must be no mistakes!"

Su Yonglin conveyed his orders, so the entire coalition immediately began a race against time.

The Jin army in Zhending City also noticed this.

They expressed doubts about the situation of the coalition forces only siege and not attacking, and were still building large-scale projects outside, and did not know what the coalition forces were doing.

Wugu Lunwolun took his men to the highest point of the city tower and looked outward, and discovered the actions of the coalition forces, and was very puzzled by this.

"They are planning to build a solid barracks here and confront me for a long time?"

People around me don't know why, so I don't know how to answer.

Now they can't see anything, but if the coalition forces don't come to attack the coalition forces, of course they won't foolishly take the initiative to attack the coalition forces. They won't do that kind of stupid thing.

So the Jin army in the city just watched, looked, looked, looked.
Chapter completed!