In the eyes of Zhong Yan and others, the ancient Wuyan City was extremely shabby, but it was always much stronger on this grassland than the Muzhai before Li Quan. Moreover, when siege, the firearms it carried were not powerful enough to be comparable to the incendiary bombs, and the damage to the city wall was not great, so after simple repair, the city wall barely restored its function.

Wang Shao's series of victories on Mengjing and Qinggangxia in the western front brought great pressure to Zhong Yan. However, although Zhong Yan was eager to make contributions, he also understood how sophisticated and terrible the enemy he was facing now was - at this time, the news from the Song army was that the main force of the Poxi Army was near Baichi City and Yanzhou, but Li Qing himself did not know where Li Qing himself was. Zhong Yan took it for granted that it was Li Qing himself who was in charge of the Jianing Military Office, and only Li Qing himself could control his generals and would not weaken the defense capabilities of the Jianing Military Office by rescuing his son.

This understanding of Zhong Yan and Yang Chongyue made them plan to make good use of Gu Wuyan City and use it as a forward nail to nail into Xixia. There are sufficient food and weapons here. The small crossbows and detachable medium-sized catapults that came with the army can be arranged on the top of the city to build a temporary defense system. In Gu Wuyan City, Zhong Yan was preparing to leave 20,000 people to defend, while the rest rode as much as possible into cavalry, specifically to escort food and grass and other military supplies to concentrate on Gu Wuyan City.

Just as Zhong Yan and his friends were busy arranging the city defense of the ancient Wuyan City, Wang Shun was not idle in the Jianing Military Office. He ordered the recruitment of men from fifteen to fifty years old in the city to join the army. This was unimaginable in the Song Dynasty, but it was normal in the Xixia and Liao Kingdoms. However, although the number of conscription personnel in this way expanded the number of troops in multiples, the overall combat effectiveness was difficult to guarantee. This can be seen from the continuous expansion of the Poxi Army in the past two years that if Li Qing was willing to expand the Poxi Army with quality step by step, the nearly 200,000 Poxi Army would be an extremely terrifying force. However, the continuous conquests have caused the Poxi Army to lose its personnel very seriously, which also shows that its combat effectiveness has not only not improved, but has declined.

The Jianing Military Office recruited more than 30,000 soldiers who met the conditions, and Wang Shun distributed these 30,000 soldiers equally to each army, and even his Tielin Army was dispersed and redistributed. The number of Tielin Army formed again was only about 17,000, and most of the new recruits were filled in the remaining troops. Wang Shun's distribution greatly increased the number of other troops, but because there were too many new recruits, the original organization of each army was even broken and rebuilt, and the corresponding combat effectiveness decreased a lot. For the Tielin Army that he could control, Wang Shun only absorbed very few selected strong new recruits. In this way, although the proportion of the Tielin Army in the Jianing Military Office decreased a lot, he still ranked first in terms of combat effectiveness.

Although Wang Shun's approach was criticized by some knowledgeable generals, it was only three or two, but the other leaders of the army were very supportive of Wang Shun's arrangements, especially when it comes to supplementing new recruits, Wang Shun's subway forest army only had two thousand people, which was even more praised by everyone. After this brief military reorganization and expansion, Wang Shun's position in the Jianing Military Office was much more stable. The generals of the army obeyed his orders more.

However, Wang Shun understood that this situation would not last long. Although Yanzhou is far away from it, Li Qing should have received news in just a few days. The time for this return is at best ten days. In other words, Wang Shun can still have about ten days to master the Jianing Military Office. How to minimize the strength of the Paixi Army in these ten days, and not allow Li Qing, who returned to the Jianing Military Office to blame himself too much, is a very difficult problem.

Wang Shun's problem was quickly solved by the envoys of the Song army - Zhong Yan sent an envoy to the Jianing Army Division, hoping to negotiate with Li Qing at the cost of exchange. For half a year, Bingfeng was the pseudonym Wang Shun hid in the Poxi Army and waited for an opportunity to assassinate Li Qing. Although he had several opportunities to get in close contact with Li Qing, he did not take action - Li Qing had too many people around him. He could not survive if he killed Li Qing. Before he had to be absolutely necessary, Bingfeng would not take the risk of doing stupid things. The task assigned to him was to assassinate Li Qing as much as possible to shake the Poxi Army's will to resist; if Li Qing surrendered to Song, he had to find a way to kill him without leaving any trace!

Bingfeng has never contacted Wang Jinghui since entering the Western Xia, but he knew that many of his senior brothers were assisting Yang Chongyue in Wuning Fort. Since the Song army who captured Li Quan alive was the Song army in Wuning Fort, his senior brothers were also likely to be in Guwuyan City, and the person he was most likely to meet was Wuxin.

"What do you think about the Song army coming to envoy?" Wang Shun said to the many generals attending the meeting in the Jianing Army Camp.

As soon as Wang Shun finished speaking, many generals below were talking about it - this was completely different from when Li Qing was there. Wang Shun had participated in many military discussions hosted by Li Qing before, but Li Qing was quite strict in the military administration. With him sitting in the position of the commander, how could the generals below dare to whisper? It seemed that his prestige was still far from it!

The result of the discussion among the generals was that the Song army used this to test the reality of the city, and it was even a trap, and there was no need to pay attention to the negotiation requirements of the Song army.

Wang Shun clapped his hands and said coldly: "At present, the Song army should not know that the general is not in the city, so the letter brought by the Song army mentioned the general's name. The major general was captured, and I will blame me, so I will personally lead a team of personal troops to Guwuyan City to negotiate with the Song army to see what requests the Song army can make. If it is reasonable and the Song army has no intention of attacking the Jianing Army, it is also OK to agree to their conditions in exchange for the major general!"

"General Wang should not take risks easily! This is obviously a trap for the Song army. If the general is in danger, how should the Jianing Military Office defend?!" A veteran general with a slightly white beard stood up and said.

Wang Shun waved his hand and said, "The Major General was surrounded, but I did not take effective measures to rescue him. I had no face to see the general again. This is a mistake I made. It should be solved by me in the future! The guards of the Jianing Military Division will be handed over to the generals. I am young and lack experience. I believe that you will do better than me!"

Everyone in the camp kept silent after hearing this. They knew that Li Quan was captured and had nothing to do with Wang Shun, because before reinforcements arrived, Guwuyan City had been broken by the Song army. Even if there were more people, it would be useless, and it would stimulate the Song army to kill Li Quan. However, at this time, everyone looked at Wang Shun with a respectful look. This young man could rise to a high position in a short time. In addition to fighting bravery, this kind of morality that ignored his own danger to make up for his lack was even more respected by all generals.

"Wang Shun?!" Zhong Yan asked, and he looked at Guan Liang next to him with confusion. Guan Liang was the person responsible for coordinating all intelligence in the northwest. If you have any questions about the enemy, just ask him.

"This Wang Shun should have been promoted recently. We all know all the generals of the Poxi Army. Only Wang Shun is a stranger. He only received a piece of information from Xingqing Prefecture last month, saying that Liang Yipu's army attacked Yanzhou, but was defeated and captured. Among them, Wang Shun was responsible for defending Yanzhou. With only more than 10,000 soldiers to resist the attack of more than 10,000 troops, he was very brave!" Guan Liang did not disappoint Zhong Yan. He could know even such a general of the Poxi Army who had never heard of. It can be seen that the person from Biandu sent Guan Liang to the northwest to take charge of the intelligence.

After hearing this, Zhong Yan nodded. Yang Chongyue said from the side: "We didn't expect Li Qing to come in person. It would be enough to have such an important general, but should we arrest or release?"

Guan Liang said: "Since Li Qing is willing to negotiate with us, this means that he has no ability to take down Guwuyan City, so he took a step back and negotiated with us. There will definitely not be too many defenders in the Jianing Army Division!"

Zhong Yan said: "No matter who comes tomorrow, we must drag it up first. Once all kinds of siege equipment arrive, we will take down the Jianing Army and force Li Qing to surrender!"

After seeing the visitor, Guan Liang and Wuxin were so surprised that they couldn't stop talking about their eyes. The slightly thin young man opposite was actually the frozen man who had lost contact with them! Guan Liang and Wuxin's expressions were naturally seen by Zhong Yan and Yang Chongyue. These two young men were talented in literature and martial arts. Never seen them lose their composure. Why was they so surprised when they saw this young general of the Poxi Army?

However, what made Zhong Yan and Yang Chongyue even more puzzled was that Guan Liang and Wuxin stood up and ran to the general named Wang Shun, Poxi Army and said, "Frozen?!"

Bingfeng didn't expect that he could really see his senior brother here. In order to prevent his identity from leaking, he only brought thirty personal guards and stayed outside. Seeing his senior brother running to him to greet him, he finally smiled on his always cold expression: "Senior Brother, Senior Brother Eighth Brother!"

When Zhong Yan and Yang Chongyue saw this scene, they couldn't help but look at each other - the son-in-law disciple! Unexpectedly, the son-in-law's disciple was actually a senior general in the Poxi Army! This made the two of them feel distracted. The scene when they saw the son-in-law in Biandu appeared in Yang Chongyue's mind - "I hope that General, don't insult the reputation of Tianbo Mansion!" - This voice echoed in his ears from time to time since he came to the northwest, and the young man with a calm face appeared in front of him from time to time under the candlelight flashing candles.

"Li Qing is still in Yanzhou to eliminate the remaining remaining soldiers of Liang Yipu. It is estimated that if he receives the news that the Song army attacks the Jianing Army, he will be able to come back in about ten days. Of course, if he is afraid that we will intercept him halfway, for his own safety, he will also keep the Poxi Army by his side. The personal guard camp beside him is very powerful, and they are all elite troops of ten. This unit has not been expanded and has not suffered much damage in the previous war. Therefore, this personal guard camp with a population of about three thousand should be the last trump card of the Poxi Army!" Bingfeng said lightly.

"Li Qing is not in the Jianing Military Office?" Zhong Yan said in surprise. To be honest, due to the obstacles of the war, the Song Dynasty had no idea about the situation in the area where Li Qing belonged. Li Qing's position was the focus of the battle situation. If he could accurately grasp Li Qing's position, then concentrating his troops to attack him would likely lead the Song Dynasty to take over Li Qing's territory. Of course, there is another way - to take down the Jianing Military Office, and Li Qing lost it, and he could only surrender to Song.

"Li Qing is indeed not in the Jianing Military Office, but there is another big man inside!" Bingfeng said with a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Can it be Liang Yipu?" Guan Liang tried to ask.

"Yes. This guy almost killed me in Yancheng, but after being defeated by Li Qing, I captured this waste alive. My Tielin Army was also crippled, and it happened to be corrected by the Jianing Military Office. Li Qing was also afraid that Liang Yipu, who had finally obtained, would be rescued, so he arranged to escort the Jianing Military Office in the Tielin Army!" Bingfeng roughly explained the whole story.

"Haha. I didn't want to attack the Jianing Military Office, but now I want to take it down even for Liang Yipu! Ice-ban, can you mobilize the Tielin Army to surrender to the Song Army? In this way, the Jianing Military Office can get it with no effort!" Zhong Yan said with a smile.

"Zhongshu, it is impossible to convince them to surrender. Li Qing is lenient and strict in governing the army, and he is extremely capable in governing the army. Unless Li Qing dies, they will never surrender. As for the Tie Lin Army, the composition of this army is even more complicated. Since the Battle of Yancheng, there are only more than 1,000 people left in the Tie Lin Army, and the rest are drawn from various units and integrated again. The subordinates cannot control this army at all!" Bingfeng said with a frown.

"According to the general's words, the city's defenders have a total of more than 60,000. Can we draw the defense drawings of the Jianing Military Office? In this way, we will decide whether to attack the Jianing Military Office!" Yang Chongyue said.

"I came this time to bring out the defense map of the Jianing Military Office!" Bingfeng smiled slightly, and after saying that, he pulled out a white cloth about a foot from his armor, marked with the complete defense situation of the Jianing Military Office. Yang Chongyue and others were overjoyed when they saw the drawings and hurriedly took them over and studied them carefully.

"Although I cannot instigate the rebellion of the Paoxi Army to surrender to Xiancheng, I am the highest military general of the Jianing Army. I can command the defense or attack of the army in the city. As long as you make a plan, I can actively cooperate and try to win the Jianing Army with minimal losses. But time should be fast, otherwise once Li Qing comes back, I will not have the ability. I believe that after Li Qing returns to the aid, it is an unrealistic idea to attack the Jianing Army. Unless it is twice as powerful as the enemy, it will be difficult to capture the city!"

While explaining the situation on the drawings in detail, Bingfeng also talked about how he organized more than 30,000 civilians into the army and broke up the establishment and integrated the defenders. After hearing this, Zhong Yan, Yang Chongyue and others couldn't help but be amazed. There was no doubt that although Bingfeng's arrangement of the new army expanded the number of defenders, its combat effectiveness had decreased a lot, and the losses to seize the Jianing Military Office could be less.

Zhong Yan, Yang Chongyue and others planned carefully for a long time, and felt that it would be better to take down the Jianing Military Office before Li Qing came back. Otherwise, just looking at the markings on the defense map, the few people knew in their hearts that Li Qing had not slept heavily in the past few years, making the Jianing Military Office no different from a hedgehog. If Li Qing came back and took charge in person, the price of getting the Jianing Military Office would make the ruling top leaders feel heartbroken. More importantly, the Jianing Military Office can't take over now, and the ancient Wuyan City, Naiwangjing, Dawu Shenliudui and other places are also rootless trees. Li Qing can completely restore his own ruling area with a destructive force. Unless the Song army strongly reinforces, it will not be able to defend it with its current strength.

However, what made Zhong Yan and others feel a little relieved was that their logistics had no problems. Li Quan made a trencher specially designed to attack Wuning Fort in Lianmuzhai. He had been transported here a long time ago. Now more than half of the trenchers have been in place, and the remaining ground will be fully in place within three days. In addition to the trenchers, many firearms have also been transported. The most important thing is that there are still more than a dozen large incendiary bombs used when attacking Lianmuzhai, and dozens of small incendiary bombs. Although the number is a little smaller, its power is the best weapon when siege.

Since he decided to attack the Jianing Military Office, there was nothing to hesitate. Zhong Yan immediately issued a general order, asking the Song army in Shilijing and Wuning Fort to concentrate all his strength on Guwuyan City. It is estimated that the final force will reach 70,000 to 80,000. In order to fill the vacancy in these places, Zhong Yan wrote a letter to Fu Bi, requesting the sending of troops to help.

At the end, everyone remembered that Bingfeng came to exchange for Li Quan for negotiations, but it was already late at this time. In the end, Bingfeng suggested that he meet Li Quan and go back to give an explanation. As for the conditions for the exchange, Zhong Yan and others should study it carefully tonight. However, in order to ensure Bingfeng's control over the Jianing Military Office, Li Quan would never be able to return to the Jianing Military Office before the siege war begins. In that case, Bingfeng would not be able to cooperate with the Song army's military operations.

When Bingfeng saw his leader coming out of the Song army's camp, he rushed up nervously, but Bingfeng told them to select two or three people to meet Li Quan so that he could report to the guards of the Jianing Army Division. As for the guards of the Jianing Army Division tonight, the guards of the Jianing Army Division finally got the person who came back to report the news in the evening. After learning that he had seen Li Quan with his own eyes, everyone was relieved - at least the Song army did not intend to attack the Jianing Army Division, but just wanted to blackmail, so that would be easy.
Chapter completed!