Xu Ping stood at the top of the city, squinting his eyes at the mountains in the distance, with a relaxed expression. It was late autumn, with forests in the distance, and the grasslands nearby were withered and yellow, which was completely different from when he first came. The grasslands in summer make people feel relaxed, while the autumn in the grasslands is desolate, and the world becomes solemn.

Wang Kai, Zhang Kang and others around them all looked serious, especially Wang Kai, who often lay on the large telescope set up beside him to take a look. As soon as Yelu Chongyuan left the city, he received news here that they were waiting for the arrival of the Khitan army.

More than 100 miles from Fengzhou to Yunneizhou, Yelu Chongyuan led his army to travel all the way, and it is estimated that he would arrive at the city of Yunneizhou on the morning of the third day. Calculate the time, Yelu Chongyuan should have come to see the city today.

Xu Ping guessed that Yelu Zongzhen would take a gamble and concentrate his troops in Fengzhou, but no one was in mind how to fight. With Yunneizhou as the center, Cao Keming and Liu Jianji were the two wings, and the defense line stretched for nearly a hundred miles. Whether the Khitan chose to break through from the center or encircle the two wings was possible. Only when they unfolded can the Song army respond.

"Here! Come!" Wang Kai raised his head from the telescope and pointed to the distance.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed together, but only saw the withered grassland, without the shadow of the army.

Zhang Kang picked up his telescope, stretched his neck and looked in the direction Wang Kai pointed, with a serious expression. The Khitan had more than 300,000 troops, and more than 600,000 troops from both sides gathered here. This was one rare battle. Zhang Kang fought with Xu Ping for three years and had not experienced a war of this scale. He had to take it seriously.

Xu Ping was not that nervous. He made up his mind not to fight against the Khitan. His nearly 200,000 people were just guarding the city and the walls, waiting for the Khitans to attack. This was the habit of the Song army, and it was also the most troublesome way of the Khitans. Siege was the most troublesome thing for them. Moreover, there were a lot of artillery on the top of the city, which was enough to suppress the Khitan's siege equipment.

The stone cannon cannot be used, the nest car cannot be used, and the shark cannot be used, so they rely on the cloud ladder to the top of the city, so that the Khitans can break the city, so that the Song army will not have to mess with it. What's more, if the artillery is used properly, even the cloud ladder can be destroyed on the way to the city. How did the Khitans break the city? Do they use light skills to climb the city wall?

The field battle with the Khitan was all handed over to the Dangxiang people. Under the stimulation of the reward, their fighting spirit was high. The Song army stood in front like a wall, and it was profitable to seize the fighter plane to fight. Once it was unfavorable, it was a situation of victory or defeat. In the eyes of the Dangxiang people, the people from the Khitan were rewarded, and many people were thinking about how much money they could get in this battle. Especially Yeli Wangrong, who was very envious of Cheng Ke's reward Xiao Puda and Zhang Fonu.

The Khitan is a strong army, and the Dangxiang people will inevitably pay a huge price to steal their heads. If they use their lives to fight for wealth, the Dangxiang people do not care about their lives, so Xu Ping cares even more. He should show his loyalty to the newly attached Dangxiang land. Xu Ping will not deduct a penny from the Dangxiang people who died on the battlefield, and will also issue pensions to their families. It is precisely because of this promise that the Dangxiang army more than 100,000 Dangxiang troops put aside their concerns and only want to cut back a few more heads from the other side's army.

Isn’t it just money? The thing that the Song Dynasty now lacks the most is this thing. To develop the land of the Party, a large amount of money must be invested in the early stage, and it is nothing more than a part of the money being invested here by giving rewards.

Yelu Chongyuan and Yelu Renxian took five hundred soldiers and fast horses, left the camp and approached Yunneizhou City to watch. To lead troops to attack the city, you must always see what the city looked like, otherwise how to fight this battle? The Dangxiang army wandered in this area for more than two months, causing panic. Now that the army has arrived ten miles away from the city, Yelu Chongyuan led his troops to peek at the city, he was still worried. Yelu Renxian was even more nervous and sent a scout from time to time to monitor the movements of several miles around.

It was quiet, and no one was seen. Even the beast felt something was wrong and hid early. The wind from the Yinshan Mountains blew across the vast earth and blew up yellow waves.

Until two miles away from Yunneizhou City, there was still no movement, and the Khitan army slowly felt relieved.

Looking up at each other, the city wall in front of him was particularly conspicuous under the sun. Yelu Chongyuan stopped at the horse and looked at it carefully.

"What?" Yelu Chongyuan rubbed his eyes and stretched his neck to look at Yunneizhou City not far away.

After looking for a while, Yelu Chongyuan pointed to Dongfang and asked Yelu Renxian beside him: "What kind of formation is this? I grew up on a horse's back and have seen countless scenes. Why have I never seen such things before?"

Yelu Ren looked at the city wall of the Song army in the distance and couldn't speak for a moment. Who knows what the hell is?

Yunneizhou City was originally on the south bank of the Jin River. As a result, in the past few months, the Song army built a new city on the north bank of the river, standing with the old city and connecting it with a bridge in the middle. This is not surprising. The two cities on both sides of the river have long solid walls extending north and south. There is no sign of the head at first glance, and there is no idea how long the solid wall is. With the city and walls, the Song army wants to seal this valley nearly a hundred miles wide? It’s fine to set up a solid wall, but it’s not straight, twisting and messy, and there is no way to see the structure.

Yelu Chongyuan looked at it for a long time and frowned and asked Yelu Renxian: "The walls are set up between the cities to transport troops and grain. Although I have never seen them, I have always read them in ancient books, so it is nothing. What is the reason for the curved wall? Is it a deep meaning?"

Yelu Renxian shook his head. He had never seen this thing before, and he couldn't think of what it meant to do so.

Why did he build this ghost? Asked Xu Ping, Xu Ping couldn't say that he could not say it. At first, he wanted to build as many cities as possible on both sides of the river, separate the troops and garrison them in different cities. Otherwise, he would have gathered so many troops in two or three cities, which would be too wasteful. According to habit, of course, it was relatively strong to burn bricks and rammed earth, so he began to build a cellar and burn bricks. As a result, open-pit coal mines were soon discovered not far from the Jin River, which were very easy to mine and could be transported along the Jin River. So he simply did not need rammed earth, and all of them were used to use large bricks to penetrate the city walls. Xu Ping had never seen such a high-quality coal mine in this world for more than ten years, and finally it was out of control. He mined coal on a large scale and burned bricks on a large scale. The more and more cities and walls were built, the longer they were built.

I waited here for more than two months and kept burning bricks to build the city, which turned out like this. Because there was no plan at the beginning, the city wall system was built crookedly. One by one, one by one, and finally it became a big bump on both sides of the Jin River. The walls extending to both sides were repaired, and as the road inside was repaired, it became longer and longer, and finally extended twenty or thirty miles to both sides. Cao Keming and Liu Jianji were the same. When they discovered a coal mine, they simply burned bricks to build the city.

It took a long time before Xu Ping came back to the taste that the low-mountain and hilly areas of this area were huge coal mines and were very easy to mine. He just didn't associate it with the geography of his previous life for a while. The brick walls may not be stronger than those of rammed earth bricks. The advantage is that they can be built faster, so a monster stretching for dozens of miles was formed.

In the past two months, more than 100,000 troops under Xu Ping have been working on this line. From mining coal, burning bricks to building a city, one-stop, if planned well, it may be able to really connect and build a large wall connected.
Chapter completed!