Wanyan Benji began to execute the emperor's orders.

Arrange the army to camp in a safe and appropriate location, then mobilize the army to start cleaning up obstacles around the city that hinder the army's attack, and further send a cavalry to explore around Hejian City to see if there is any contact inside and outside the city.

He wanted to cut off all external contacts in Hejian City so that Hejian City could not get any assistance from the outside world, and so that it would be until it was broken.

On November 13, the siege was successfully completed. While Wanyan Liang ordered the army to prepare for the siege, he also received a military information report from Heshi Lie Liangbi.

Heshi Lieliangbi led 40,000 people from the Right Army to head south from Xiongzhou, occupying the unguarded Gecheng County and Gaoyang County of Anzhou, and then divided their troops to occupy Baozhou.

He fought several victories without enemies, but did not encounter any resistance troops from the Restoration Army along the way. When he continued to march to Boye County in Lizhou, he finally met the defenders of the Restoration Army.

While Heshi Lie Liangbi arranged the army to prepare to attack Boye, he also informed Wanyan Liang of some of his own ideas.

He found that the Restoration Army carried out a very resolute and cleared the fields in several states along the border, and could not find any trace of anyone, nor did it have any materials that could be used for wars such as food, cloth, and weapons. It can be said that these states were all emptied.

This kind of strength is very rare, which is enough to prove that the Restoration Army is well prepared and has a strong fighting will. It is not ruled out that it is likely that it will continue to face such a certain level of clearing the country along the way.

Heshi Lieliangbi hoped that the emperor would pay attention to protecting the logistics, and that he would never go too deep into Hebei without understanding the marching and formation of the Liberation Army. If there was a problem with the logistics, something big would really happen.

After Wanyan Liang learned the news, he thought about it carefully and felt that what Heshi Lie Liangbi said was also reasonable.

The Restoration Army's tactics of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields were very resolutely implemented, which surprised him a little. He could not find any food along the way. If he wanted to improve the food for the soldiers, he had to rely on woodcutting, fishing and hunting.

But now it is winter, and wild animals are hiding in caves and cannot come out. The rivers are frozen and cannot be fished. The woodcutters cannot pick anything to eat. Therefore, they must rely on logistics to replenish food, which is difficult to obtain on the spot.

This annoyed Wanyan Liang.

The war preparations of the Restoration Army were too perfect, which caused the Jin army to encounter such alternative threats as soon as it set out on the expedition.

But this just made Wanyan Liang more fighting spirit.

He had no hope of relying on the place to fill up food and fodder when he went on the expedition. This level of solid walls and clearing the field was not incredible in his opinion. And the key point was that if the army could not control the logistics of the expedition, then what else could he fight?

Su Yonglin gave him a warning, and he would slap Su Yonglin in a more resolute way, so that he knew that this level of solid walls and clearing the wilderness could not stop his attack!

With Wanyan Liang's order, the Hejian offensive and defensive battle officially began.

Hejian City is a strong city, a big city, and a war fortress that Su Yonglin gave high expectations, so the defending general Jiang Liangping is the deputy general of Tianxing Army. The main force of the defending troops are the two regiments of Tianxing Army, which are very elite.

In addition, in order to increase the strength of the city guards, Su Yonglin also matched Hejian City with a local armed independent battalion, with the number of regular city guards reaching 6,000.

In Jiang Liangping's opinion, only 6,000 troops defending the city were of course not enough.

So after entering Hejian City to take over the power, he entrusted his deputy, senior instructor Wu Anxiang, to lead some elite officers to organize the strong men in the city, select 20,000 strong men, send them weapons and equipment, and pull them to start emergency military training.

These trainings are not mainly about fighting, but ideological education and technical training.

In addition to the ideological education of protecting the family behind them, it is mainly to teach them how to use weapons to defend the city, such as crossbow arrows, bed crossbows, catapults, firearms, etc., so that they can support battles on the city walls as fast as possible.

Fighting, which requires long-term training, is ineffective no matter how many attacks are. As long as they learn to use weapons to defend the city, they can climb the city to fight and provide support to the main army.

Although this fast-acting technical army is not as good as the regular army technical army that has undergone rigorous training, it can still play a huge role as long as the number is sufficient.

Su Yonglin told Jiang Liangping that once the Jin army realized that the entire Hebei had implemented the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness, they would go crazy, but before that, they would definitely regard Hejian and Zhending as the targets that must be captured and siege them with all their strength.

Whether Zhending and Hejian can withstand it for the first time is of great significance to the entire battle.

If they could undermine the spirit of the Jin army, defend Hejian City and Zhending City, so that the Jin army could not capture these two cities, then for the Jin army, the battle would have been half lost.

If they want to go south, they must divide their troops to surround the two cities. Even if the soldiers in these two cities do not go out, they can restrain at least 20,000 or 30,000 Jin troops.

However, the strength of the Jin army cannot be underestimated. This is also what Su Yonglin warned the generals many times that the elite Jin army had strong combat power both in siege and field battles.

Not to mention that when they were fully deployed, there were hundreds of siege equipment, which could surround the entire Hejian City two or three circles.

In order to increase their chances of success in defending the city, Su Yonglin also gave each of them a city defense manual, which detailed the possible siege methods that the Jin army may use.

When Jiang Liang learned that the Jin army had set up a formation to attack the city, helmet and armor were placed on the city wall and looked into the distance to observe the Jin army's formation. He found that the Jin army was huge and the army was covered with darkness. There were many siege equipment of various sizes, which was daunting to see.

I had to make a comparison, it was like being surrounded by a group of hungry mangroves in a wilderness. There was no way out on all sides, only the eyes of the green wild wolf.

These hungry wild wolves stared at their prey with their eyes and grinning, ready to rush up and bite off their prey's throat at any time.

It's that kind of déjà vu.

Jiang Liangping was not afraid, but also felt his scalp numb. For the first time, he felt how weak the weak side was in the face of absolute military strength advantage.

It feels like they are the only city in the whole world that is still resisting. The outer edge of the city continues to the horizon, and they are all enemy troops, endless.

If there were no such a solid war fortress, their six thousand regular troops would have been easily flooded by the crowds brought by Wanyan Liang.

Jiang Liangping swallowed and took several deep breaths to gradually ease his nervousness.

Jiang Liangping was born in an old man from the Su family and was the first confidant to follow Su Yonglin to rebel north. He was born on the beach and was a fisherman family. His earliest name was Jiang Xiaoyu.

Before Su Yonglin led them to rebel, he concentrated on changing the names of those who were not very good among them. Jiang Xiaoyu changed his name to Jiang Liangping at that time.

After fighting all the way, he went from a simple and kind fisherman Jiang Xiaoyu to a private salt dealer who licked blood from a knife, and under the education of Su Yonglin, he became a soldier of the Restoration Army Jiang Liangping.

As the star of tomorrow who has the best military achievements and the best military theory among middle-level officers, Su Yonglin handed over the task of defending Hejian City to him and expressed his eager expectations for him.

So he cannot fall behind no matter what, and cannot let this fortress of war fall in his hands.

After calming down, Jiang Liangping took out a small wooden tube-shaped thing from his pocket, then lengthened the little thing, raised it up, and looked at it in his eyes.

Before the war, Su Yonglin sent one of the thirty guards to each of them, a thing called Qianliyan.

It is said that it is the latest product of the Ordnance Department. It can see things from far away clearly, just like magic tricks, but the one that can be used just now is not high in output, so you can only have one.

When Jiang Liangping first got this thing, he thought it was a good thing. The transparent glass film actually had this function, and he really never thought about it.

Of course, he didn't care how this thing achieved this effect, as long as he had this effect.

He stood on the high ground on the city wall and took a cliffhanger, looked around at the Jin army's lineup, and saw many things that were simply invisible to climb up and look far.
Chapter completed!