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A group of qualified students who passed the examination were selected from the officials who had been trained at the Military and Political Academy, and the officials in Yizhou City were greatly changed. Then, under the coordinated pressure of the Jinzhou military, they began to settle the people, measure the land, and conduct population censuses.

To bring justice to the local tyrants and evil gentry who were unkind for their wealth, and to bring justice to the ordinary people. By the way, a group of corrupt officials who were originally working as collaborators in Yizhou City were severely punished.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary means are used to seize the big ones and release the small ones, quickly, accurately and ruthlessly. Every crime must be well-documented, so that a good person is not wronged and a bad person is not easily let go.

While the eldest prince Jun Mingde was dreaming of being an emperor, Yizhou had basically returned to its previous normal order after more than twenty days of repairs.

All matters are being implemented at an intensifying pace, striving to complete the land measurement before the new year, and then divide the fields into households according to the actual situation, so that all grains can be planted in the next spring.

As for government affairs, Old General Lian Po doesn't care about these. He knew that he was a warrior and was good at leading troops to fight. He couldn't do such a thing as living on a budget.

At this time, he was looking at the sand table attentively in the commander's tent in the Yizhou City military camp, watching the weather getting colder day by day. It seems like it might snow in a few days.

These military staff officers from the Military and Political College collected information through various channels and conducted rigorous and repeated arguments for two days before submitting a feasibility military report.

Lian Po read it carefully twice, staring at the sand table and thinking and making deductions. After all, we may encounter extremely cold weather in the coming winter, and it is a long-standing consensus that it is not appropriate to use weapons on a large scale in freezing weather.

The staff suggestions from the Military and Political College are to launch a war in freezing weather.

It lists some pros and cons in detail.

As a veteran, he is very aware of the various defenses and military layout of the imperial city. After all, he had stayed in the Imperial City for nearly twenty years. The moat alone is ten feet wide and five feet deep. Running water is introduced from the canal river to keep the water level unchanged all year round. This is the first natural moat.

Secondly, the highest part of the city wall is twenty feet high, and the shortest part is fifteen feet high. It took a lot of money to hire immortal cultivators for help and used magic to build it. In many places, the wall is a complete piece. It is conceivable that the method of smashing the city wall with Yizhou City is unlikely to be realized.

The three city walls are ten feet wide in some places and six or seven feet in narrow places. The ordnance and garrison strength above are so huge that just hearing the approximate figures is enough to scare people away.

If you want to break through it entirely by manpower, unless you have an internal response, it will be difficult to break it even if you don't hesitate to take human lives. This imperial city was not designed from the beginning to prevent anyone from rebelling, but was built to prevent low-level monsters from causing rebellion.

Looking at these disadvantages, the staff of the Military and Political College gave the suggestion to attack the city in winter.

There are three major factors for success: timing! Convenient location! People and!

Let’s talk about the weather first: It will soon be early winter. For both the attacker and the defender, there is actually no advantage to take advantage of. There is no place to block the cold wind on the spacious city wall, and the same is true outside the city. It is this kind of weather that has no advantages to take advantage of, and it is more and more likely to start a war.

The reasons given are generally as follows:

First: Most of the Jinzhou Army are sergeants from the northern states and are accustomed to the freezing weather environment. On the other hand, most of the 500,000 defenders recruited by the Imperial City from the south have never seen what the white snow looks like since they were young, let alone seeing people die from hypothermia and frostbite.

Second: The moat is more than ten feet wide and five feet deep. It remains full of water all year round. Although it is transported by canal, even the canal channel of the moat's water source can freeze when the weather is cold, and the shallow water area may even stop flowing. Deep water There will also be a thick layer of ice on top, and it will take ten days to freeze three feet. It is impossible to verify how thick the ice can be on the moat, but if you think about it, it is very different from the Cao Canal Road.

In order to verify the conjecture, I specifically asked for answers from the soldiers in the capital who surrendered in several battles. According to the description of a person who once worked as a clerk in the capital, one year in the twelfth lunar month, the mules and horses of the city's chamber of commerce were startled when they were crossing the suspension bridge. They fell together with a cart of goods. The mules were injured, and the truck fell apart. The ice surface and other things Nothing happened. The trading company spent a lot of money to quell the matter. The superiors issued a hush-hush order and only knew about it within a small area. It happened that he was on duty that day and saw it with his own eyes, otherwise he wouldn't have known about it.

If this is true, the ice on the moat is much thicker than imagined. If the war is delayed until spring comes, it will take a lot of lives to fill up this barrier.

Let’s talk about the location: the defenders at the top of the city definitely have an advantage, and the number of city defense weapons is astonishing. There are giant crossbows above the city gate and at the corners of the city wall. This powerful weapon was originally designed to kill monsters. It’s good. The quantity is limited and cannot be moved. The Jinzhou Army's other siege weapons had greater range and power than the defenders on the imperial city. The two cancel each other out and are almost evenly matched.

Let’s talk about Renhe:

After two wars, the imperial city's garrison's generals who were good at fighting suffered numerous casualties, and most of the well-trained soldiers were also mobilized. Most of those who remained on the top of the city were noble sons of aristocratic families. Although There was a wave of defeats on the battlefield before, but there was no shortage of these family members. Ding Xingwang added another wave. These people can fight with the wind and rely on their numbers to gain military exploits. But once they reach a stalemate or lose, these people will When a wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when a tree falls, the hozens scatter. They must be the fastest ones to escape.

The remaining soldiers who were added to the city wall for defense were newly recruited soldiers, and most of them were from the south. The vast majority of these people were still small traders and hawkers yesterday, working as household farmers in rural households. We just put down our carrying poles and hoes, and it would definitely be unrealistic for them to pick up swords and guns and go out to fight with others today. This kind of people will be timid and it is important to save their lives. After all, they have no choice but to leave their homes and defend the city. Shunfeng Bureau is shouting to help. If defeated, these people will immediately drop their weapons and surrender to save their lives.

On the other hand, the Jinzhou Army has gone through dozens of large and small battles, and two super large-scale battles. Many people have fought out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They dare to fight and fight hard. They can be chased when the wind is favorable and they can defend the position against the wind.

In the Yizhou offensive and defensive battle that had just ended, due to the rapid collapse of the defenders' resistance, the entire city's grain, grass and military supplies were seized by the Jinzhou Army. In addition, a group of local tyrants and evil gentry were killed, and a group of corrupt officials' affiliated hospitals were raided. The amount of money and food obtained is also huge, more than enough to support a war.

After Marshal Lian Po finished reviewing the military action feasibility report given by the Military and Political College Staff Office on the sand table, his brows were still tightly knitted. After all, this was related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people. Still have to proceed with caution.

Many young generals, including Commander Lian Po, cannot yet pronounce their names. After the next war, their bones may have been buried in a foreign land and integrated with this land.

Why should loyal bones be buried in the homeland? There are green hills everywhere in the world.