Zhao Kai has arrived!

Under the banner of Xiang Ke, the Tiance Selection Front Army commanded by Yue Fei, the Tiance Imperial Tent Army commanded by Dong Jingang, the Yulin Personal Army commanded by Li Fuchen, and the artillery general commanded by Huang Wubing, a total of more than 25,000 people have arrived at the Xiping Prefecture frontline!

He himself did not camp at the west bank of Lingzhou River. Instead, accompanied by Yue Fei, Guo Tiannu, Dong Jingang, Huang Wubing and others, he quietly entered a village close to the Yellow River Dam and the seventh-level canal that led the Yellow River water into Lingzhou River, and began to observe the high-rise Yellow River embankment.

The village where Zhao Kai entered is very close to the seventh-level canal and the Yellow River embankment built in the Tang Dynasty, and is only a thousand steps away from the city wall where the intersection of the Yellow River Dam and the seventh-level canal.

The residents living here fled to the east bank of Lingzhou River before the Song army arrived. Only more than 200 infantrymen belonging to the Xixia Xiangqing Army Division guarded here.

Before Zhao Kai arrived, Yue Fei and his soldiers from the Selected Front Army suddenly rushed to the outside of the village gate on horseback, then dismounted and launched an attack. He first threw several copper pot bombs, which shocked the Xixia soldiers guarding the entrance of the village, and then flocked in. The battle was resolved in less than an incense stick. Dozens were slaughtered, and the rest were all captured.

The so-called copper pot bomb is to put black gunpowder and iron slag into the cast small bronze kettle, then wrap a fuse with a wooden tube and wrap a few layers of silk to plug the mouth of the pot. The simple design is also very powerful, it is a bit small and expensive copper pot weighing more than one pound. The material (including loss) alone can be used to cast a few hundred coins of copper coins! With gunpowder money, labor costs, a copper pot bomb will cost a lot, and it is not a waste of money (it is only less than 1,000 coins). However, in order to quickly take over the Western Xia, Zhao Kai didn't care about the money. Before leaving Luoyang, he asked the Fucai Artillery Supervision Factory to build hundreds of copper pots, and then purchased more than 1,000 coins from the market, collecting 2,000 coins, and all of them were transformed into bombs!

After Yue Fei took the village, Zhao Kai immediately entered the village, then found the tallest adobe house, went up to the roof, and began to use a telescope to observe the Yellow River embankment city several hundred steps away. This telescope is more precious than a cannon and is the only one in the world!

It was Zhao Kai who found a master who made glasses in Luoyang City (there were glasses in the Song Dynasty, but they were not polished with glass, but crystal). He ground two convex lenses with crystals, and then made them stretchable sleeves for the carpenter of Ziwei Palace decoration. Then he installed the lenses himself to make them. It was okay, but it was not good at all, because this telescope had only two convex lenses and one sleeve, so the imaging was inverted and it was not very accustomed to it.

Through the eyepiece of this telescope, Zhao Kai saw an inverted castle, leaning on the intersection of the Yellow River embankment and the seventh-level canal, where the embankment and the canal meet, so it is relatively spacious and a small castle can be built.

The river embankment and the canal are not very tall, and they are incomparable to the Wannian New Dike near Kaifeng Prefecture. Without this castle, it would not be difficult to seize the dam and canal.

A wide trench was dug under the river embankment and canal where the castle was located. The trench was filled with water, and I don’t know how deep it was.

In addition to launching an attack from below the castle, the Song army could also attack the castle along the seventh-level canal and the top of the Yellow River embankment. However, the top of the dam and the top of the canal were relatively narrow, and there were too many troops, and the Western thieves must have carried out corresponding defenses.

In addition to these three lines, the enemy who attacks the Dike Castle can also cross the Yellow River embankment and attack from behind the castle.

In addition, there is another difficulty that Zhao Kai did not expect, that is, the Yellow River Dam looks broken and old, as if it has not been repaired for hundreds of years. I don’t know if it can withstand the bombardment of the twenty-five pound cannon? But before the Western thief digged, the dam collapsed the cannon!

Moreover, the embankment looks not reliable at all, and it seems that it can collapse by just digging it.

Zhao Kai stood on the roof, held the telescope and observed for a long time, and then he gently uttered a few words: "Have you questioned?"

"The question has been discussed." The person who replied was Dong Jingang, and all the prisoners Yue Fei captured were handed over to him for interrogation.

"How many days will it take to dig the dam?" Zhao Kai asked.

"One day!" Dong Jingang replied.

It's really inspiring!

Dong Jingang paused and said, "There are two ways to dig Western thieves, one is to dig a river embankment, and the other is to dig a water gate between the large canal and the Yellow River. After digging the large canal, open the water gate and release the water hard, and we can flood our camp! And afterwards, as long as the water gate is closed, the water will be able to retreat immediately, and the repair channels are easy, and there will be no formation of a sphere.

In addition, digging a large canal has another advantage, which is easy to control the water level. You can close the water gate in front of the dam of Lingzhou River. In this way, Lingzhou City will not be flooded! If we can grab this castle, control the sluice gate and the large canal, we can also dig the other side of the large canal and irrigate the water to irrigate Lingzhou City!"

This Dong Jingang seemed vulgar, but in fact he was quite careful. He asked very clearly that the Western thief who was forced to question him would be beaten so hard that he didn't know him! Moreover, the one who was beaten was not only a Western thief, but at least seven or eight of them were beaten alone.

So what Dong Jingang forced him to ask should be credible!

"How thick is this dam? Can it withstand the bombardment of hot pot guns?" Zhao Kai asked again.

"The intersection of the dam and the canal is relatively wide and strong, and it should be able to withstand it." Dong Jingang said, "But the other parts of the dam and the canal are not good. The top is only more than ten feet wide and cannot be bombarded with iron bombs.

In addition, this civil castle is mainly built with rammed earth, with not much wood and it is impossible to burn all of it."

What an inspiring news!

Zhao Kai thought to himself: There is only one day!

And we can't let go of the shelling, and the arson bombs are not very useful. The tops of the embankments and canals are too narrow. How can we shoot?

"How to fight?" Zhao Kai decided not to think about it, so he asked directly!

"Put the hot pot cannon outside the trench below the city wall and use stone bombs to bombard the city wall as a feint." Yue Fei immediately took over the question and replied, "Send troops to cross the Yellow River embankment and detour the Yellow River beach to attack the back of the city wall. The water level there is high, the height of the embankment is relatively low, and there is also a wharf and a bridgehead with a floating bridge to be used."

"I understand!" Zhao Kai smiled, "Front bombardment attracted the attention of the Western thieves, and then send warriors to attack from behind!"

"No," Yue Fei shook his head, "that's also a feint."

"What?" Zhao Kai was stunned, "Do you want to launch a main attack from the top of the dam?"

"That's right!" Yue Fei nodded, "It's the only way to attack from the top of the dam to be unexpected and succeed in one move!"

"But the top of the embankment is only more than one meter wide, how can you attack?" Zhao Kai asked.

"We can bring the hot pot cannons up," said Yue Fei, "to shoot gravel!"

OK, 25 kilograms of shotgun! Zhao Kaixin said: This is too cruel, right? But I like it very much!

"Flat ejaculation?" Zhao Kai suddenly frowned, "How to resolve the recoil?"

"Use earth buns," Huang Wubing interrupted, "Officials, ministers and others tried to shoot flat with ten-pound cannons at the shooting range outside Xuanwu City, and could pile up many earth buns behind the gun stand to relieve their strength."

"Also," Yue Fei said at this time, "We can also transform the car into a car, and carry it onto the dam so that our soldiers can hide behind the car and throw bombs!"

"Good idea!" Zhao Kai emphasized, "When can you be ready?"

Yue Fei calculated, "Tonight, everything will be ready tonight, and the attack will start early tomorrow morning!"

Zhao Kai nodded: "Before tomorrow dark, I will take down the Diba City!" He thought for a while, "It's May 30th, the third day of June, and I will sleep in Lingzhou City!"

Yue Fei, Li Xiaozhong, Dong Jingang and others nodded speechlessly. Although they didn't say anything, Zhao Kai still saw the worry in their expressions.

Because they knew that Lingzhou City was already the hinterland of the Western thieves! The soldiers of the Western thieves would soon drive from Xingqing Prefecture!

At that time, it would be difficult for Zhao Kai to capture Lingzhou City again. He had only about 25,000 people on hand. Xiang Ke also led 100,000 people to besiege Mingsha City (of which only half of the soldiers were fighting), and the total strength was only 125,000.

In the wild battle, I am not afraid of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western thieves, but it is not enough to attack Lingzhou City, which is guarded by so many Western thieves.

And it seems that June is the sixth month of the lunar calendar, which is equivalent to mid-July of the Western calendar. It is very close to the time when the weather turns colder.

Once the climate in North China turns cooler, the Jin soldiers will launch an attack. If Zhao Kai cannot return to North China in time, then this blitzkrieg will be ruined!

Although time is tight, Zhao Kai still has the confidence. The biggest advantage of his person is probably that he has a strong self-confidence! In addition to self-confidence, Zhao Kai is also very stylish and willing to share money and land!

Seeing that his good brothers were a little lacking in confidence, Zhao Kai also restrained his expression and pointed to Lingzhou City in the east: "Our Song Dynasty fought with the Western Pirates for more than 100 years. I don't know how many loyal and wise men buried their bones in the west, maybe there were your elders and relatives among them! And this city is the key to the survival of the Western Pirates. When the Western Pirates seized this city first, they were able to become king and emperor! This Lingzhou City is the Yanjing City of the Western Pirates!

In three days, I will be able to take you back from the Western thieves. The national fortune of the Western thieves will be passed on my will. I only need Lingzhou City, the official treasury of the Western thieves in the city, and the property of the Western thieves nobles in the city, to allocate them to the soldiers! Half of the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land outside the city will be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers who are willing to settle in Lingzhou, and the rest will be used to resettle the soldiers!"
Chapter completed!