Change, this is not the same thing as winter camping in a peaceful state.

In desperation, Hu Yin stepped forward, made the divisions himself, and began to distribute grain in a planned way.

Priority will be given to combatants, and the number of non-combatants below Hu Mingzhong will be slightly reduced. Everyone will start to have a quota to avoid being unable to survive the freezing period if it is too long.

In this case, the Song army was a little frustrated and was a little weak in combat, but there was nothing they could do.

However, the Jin army was not much better.

Although the Jin Army is fighting on the inside, its manpower is theoretically infinite, and it does not care about the life and death of the people, but some things do not mean that there will be no problems without restrictions.

For example, at the repeated request of Zhao Guan's family, the Song Army successively included ear protection, gloves, and even masks as military supplies. In preparation for this war, it was also one of the military supplies reserves. Like military rations, they were all personally inspected by Zhao Guan's family, and these items were very similar to those of Zhao Guan's family.

Compared with other ordnance and armor, the cost is not high, basically millions, and everyone has it. Of course, Yue Fei also has reserves here.

What about the Jin Army? Although the Jin Army had long known about this through normal civilian circulation, it had actually begun to be distributed among the army. Even the ear protection and gloves made of fur in the Jin State were recognized as more valuable than the linen products of the Song Dynasty.

Effective... but the Jin Army did not have the awareness to unify the reserves into millions.

It wasn't obvious before, but now that the cold wave has arrived, it's a big problem whether they have those things. Although they have countless gold and silver in Yanjing, and countless ordnance and armor reserves in Zhending Mansion, they even have them in Zhending.

A large amount of furs were used to keep out the cold, but large-scale gloves and ear protection could not be formed for a while.

A small amount of storage can only satisfy the fighting troops, and even the fighting troops cannot be sufficient.

In short, just like a few hours ago, the Jin Army was passively fighting here. Because of a little thing here and a little thing there, the combat effectiveness of the army began to diverge rapidly.

The elites and soldiers could barely maintain their combat effectiveness, but the lower-level auxiliary soldiers and signatory troops were in difficulty... But a war of this scale had already exceeded everyone's original understanding, and the auxiliary soldiers and signatory troops were unknowingly

Zhongchao has become a necessary part of the war. When the latter cannot effectively exert its effectiveness, the war will also be affected.

The most intuitive manifestation is on the river front. No matter how hard the Jin army tries, these auxiliary troops and auxiliary troops cannot play an effective role in consumption. The preparations for an offensive often take up half a day, and if these auxiliary troops and auxiliary troops

If soldiers cannot play an effective role in consumption, who would be willing to invest large-scale soldiers into the Song Army's defense line full of ice skates again?

Therefore, after the cold wave arrived, the Jin army was horrified to find that although their morale gradually recovered, their speed and ability to organize a large-scale offensive became increasingly difficult.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, when the Zhao Guan family began to cut off the Fenshui River to the west of Taiyuan City, the Jin Army's second large-scale attack did not suffer as serious a setback as Wang Bolong's, but it was not unexpected that the Song Army gritted its teeth and held on.

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However, from the overall perspective, this result seems to have put the Song Army in a more dangerous and embarrassing situation, and also caused the Song Army's senior officials to fall into some kind of uneasiness.

"Marshal Yue."

Late at night on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, a dark-faced Hu Yin appeared in Yue Fei's tent, then stretched out his almost frozen hand directly next to the brazier and said directly, "I have something to say."

Yue Fei did not dare to neglect, and immediately stood up and saluted respectfully, and then signaled the attendants and staff to leave together.

As soon as the people left, Hu Yin immediately spoke: "I heard that the Jin Kingdom began to cut off the Yellow River channels on both sides in the south, is that true?"

"Yes." Yue Fei didn't mean to hide anything. "So that Hu Shangshu knows that the Jin army was frustrated in their attack the day before yesterday. Starting about yesterday, they directly changed the plan and gathered a large number of civilians in the south to try to dig through the North Yellow River.

The method of connecting the East Fork and the West Fork of the Yellow River's East Channel is to cut off the two rivers on our side... Because of its huge scale, the scouts only figured out the other party's intentions early this morning and then reported back."

"What do you think?" Hu Yin didn't ask why the other party didn't tell him in time, but directly pursued the question.

"It's hard to say." Yue Fei sighed. "I am originally from Hebei and know the local hydrology... Just cutting off is no problem. The key is that this step is very expensive. It is almost the Chinese New Year. I don't know if I can make it in time... If it thaws

If they can complete it before then, then they can do it; otherwise, if the project is not completed and the river channel has been cultivated, then they will be asking for death."

"So, this means leaving success or failure to the Jin people?" Hu Yin responded coldly.

"Taking this matter alone, it is indeed the case." Yue Fei told him frankly.

"That's why I'm looking for you." Hu Yin put down his hands warming up to the fire and answered seriously. "If the Jin Army succeeds, our logistics will be cut off and we need to make long-term plans... Starting from tomorrow, we will change the food rations

……how?"

"Hu Shangshu." Yue Fei took a few steps forward, squinted his eyes, lowered his voice, and breathed a little. "Hu Shangshu, let me be honest... I think you have gone astray, or even thought the opposite."

Hu Yin was slightly startled.

And Yue Fei also quickly explained: "First of all, the Jin people did this after being frustrated. On the surface, it was to cut off our logistics. It is impossible to say that it was true, but considering the time, it was actually 90% too late...

…Ten percent of the time, there is another meaning.”

Hu Yin was at a loss at first, but suddenly became alert. He looked at the big-eyed general in front of him in surprise, and then slowly looked at each other: "You mean... their original intention is to destroy the Yellow River dam, so that the water will overflow Hebei after spring...

...preventing us from marching properly? But what about Hebei, do they not want it?"

"This is desperate." Yue Fei sighed. "If they can't stop us and the officials from advancing on two fronts, Hebei is the land of Song Dynasty. What do they have to worry about?"

Hu Yin was speechless for a moment... Not to mention that if this battle was defeated, Hebei would no longer be the Kingdom of Jin. To put it bluntly, the Sanyi returned to Hena to cause trouble. Wasn't it possible for the Song Dynasty controller Hebei to do it?

It would be ridiculous to condemn the Jin people at this time.

And this matter is really impossible to prevent... Unless the opponent is blasted away before the ice melts, and the levee is blocked in time. But that can only be saved for a while... There are four or five rivers, extending all the way to Yanyun, and they can be dug anywhere.

, unless you keep pressing the other person down from tomorrow onwards, making the other person breathless, otherwise your scalp will go numb just thinking about it.

Hu Yin's heart almost turned cold at the thought.

"What else?" After a long while, Hu Mingzhong came back to his senses. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and gritted his teeth and asked. "The marshal said first, naturally there will be second, right?"

"After that..." Yue Fei stared at Hu Mingzhong and said seriously. "The more this is the case, the less likely we are to make long-term plans. Instead, we should relax rationing and let the soldiers and civilians have enough strength to attack instead of defend.

Use your strength to contain them, and even use your offensive to scare them!"

Hu Yin thought for a moment and immediately realized: "Attack Yuancheng?"

"Yancheng was besieged for forty-fifty days, and was also attacked for forty-fifty days. In the previous battle with Wang Bolong, Gao Jingshan even sent out nearly half of the city's elite. It was already on the verge of collapse." Now that things have happened, Yue Fei has no need to hide it.

"If I wanted to break the city, I would have broken it long ago. The reason why I didn't break it was just for two things... one was to involve the main force of the Jin army in Hedong, and the other was to make an appointment with the officials as much as possible tomorrow."

Let’s try to break the city together!”

"Tomorrow?" Hu Yin answered in a daze.

"Tomorrow." Yue Fei calmly handed over his hands. "It's just because the Jin army tried to dig the embankment yesterday and it will be as good as today, so I didn't say much to Hu Shangshu."

Hu Yin was silent for a moment and asked again: "What city will the officials try to break tomorrow?"

Yue Fei rarely laughed: "What do Mr. Hu think?"

Hu Yin shook his head slightly, in disbelief for a moment.

It was already past midnight, and the snow had already stopped outside Taiyuan City. General Wan Yan of the Jin Kingdom, fully clothed, came to the tower of Guancheng in the south of Taiyuan City to look at the Song Army camp, but he was speechless for a long time because of the strange sight in front of him.

It turned out that in the middle of the night in the cold winter, shortly after the snow stopped, the Song Army camp suddenly became filled with mist and steam, forming a sharp contrast with the surrounding white snow and the dark night sky.

"Wanhu..." Meng An, a close confidant in charge of Guancheng in the south, couldn't help but stepped forward to talk. "It may be that there are too many soldiers in the Song Dynasty. It may also be that Wu Jie brought the army here today and is celebrating the New Year. The soldiers are allowed to eat and drink.

Feasting and drinking to excess.”

"That official Zhao Song family is not a person who feasts and feasts excessively." Wan Yan turned around and looked at the strange fog in front of him, and spoke coldly. "There are just too many people. The south is the main camp. Today, another 20,000 people came, and it just rained.

Snow… its breath turns into clouds, its breath turns into mist.”

"Yes, it must be so." Meng An nodded heavily, and then asked cautiously, "Then shall we take the opportunity to rob the camp?"

"No need." Wanyan Zhehe shook his head without hesitation. "There is no crisis in the city defense, and there are famous generals and veterans of the Song Army under the city. There is no need to throw away troops easily... However, I do wait for the opponent to be exhausted or have no choice.

He was preparing to rob the camp at the time, but he was preparing to personally lead the troops to rob Yongli Prison."

"Yes, if we want to rob the camp, we should rob their rear camp." Meng An, his subordinate, suddenly understood for a moment, but then he laughed again. "However, who said that they are not allowed to do this will be the commander-in-chief, or General Sa Lihe?"

Wanyan turned around and looked at the other party, then said seriously: "Salihe is not coming, and Dutong is only a fifty-fifty number."

Meng An's expression suddenly changed.

"I don't want to hide it from you." Fengyi continued to respond seriously. "If Sa Lihe had the courage and ability to rob the camp, he shouldn't have let Zhao Song's family come so quickly, let alone Wu Jie come so quickly... And

Since the Song army came so quickly, Sa Lihe's fellow was already useless, and there was no hope at all." After saying this, his expression remained unchanged. "As for Dutong... I have seen Dutong's paintings for me with my own eyes.

According to the situation map of Daming Prefecture, they will either gather and annihilate the Song army under the city, then go to Tokyo and transfer to Heluo; or they will be helpless and tied up in Daming Prefecture... But no matter which way it is, we have to rely on ourselves to sustain it."

"Yes, since we are defending the city, we should support it ourselves." Meng An tried his best to smile. "The Song people can defend this city for two hundred days, but we can't defend it for a hundred days? For a hundred days, the capital will have already transferred to Tokyo.

It’s time for the Song army to retreat on its own.”

Wanyan folded his head and nodded, still serious: "Attacking and defending cities is the specialty of the Song Dynasty. We are fighting in the field first... Although Taiyuan City is strong, I really am not prepared to defend it for a hundred days. I can defend it for fifty days."

But... Fifty days ago, when we lost the city, I was responsible for the loss of the capital, and I had no regrets when I died. Fifty days later, it was the commander-in-chief who lost me, and I was the one who lost the responsibility. This was the first time I accepted this responsibility.

Finally, I directly told Du Tong the exact words he said."

Meng An next to him finally curled his lips helplessly and said nothing more... When you meet this kind of general, let alone talk about fifty days and one hundred days, the key is that the words are so boring, how can anyone bear it?

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Time flies by easily, but within a few hours, amid the biting cold wind, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month has arrived. In the huge camp under Yuancheng in Daming Prefecture, early in the morning, Yue Fei, Hu Yin and Zhang Rong held a military meeting and announced

After deciding to launch a large-scale attack on the city today, Hu Yin immediately used the New Year as an excuse to temporarily suspend rationing, relax logistics, and reward the reserves of dried meat and wine.

When the news came out, even though they knew they were going to attack the city today, the three armies cheered thunderously.

Next, the Song army was calm and had breakfast calmly. Then while preparing for the siege, they started a fire to prepare extra meals for the siege.

Different from the evaporation of moisture brought by melting snowflakes under the city of Taiyuan, the dry and cold city of Yuancheng can only turn into clouds due to the rise of water vapor. However, across a river, the Jin army saw the smoke from cooking on the other side of the river, and the steam continued.

Hearing the constant movement on the opposite side, he knew that the Song army was making moves, but it was wrong to regroup in a hurry.

Immediately, Wu Shu and his generals climbed up the tall earthen hill that had just been built in Hexi in the past few days. They watched the situation from a distance and immediately realized that the Song army was going to attack the city today.
To be continued...