On the opposite side is the Jin Army, Gao Sheng's troops, just as Xu Huiyan was worried, the Jin Army really went south, as if they wanted to have some fun, but they didn't expect the Song Army to be in a tight position, and in the face of the more than 10,000 elites of the entire Yunjie Army, they were still intimidated.

Xu Huiyan did not take advantage of it, as the commander of the camp, he could get access to high-level military orders, and before completing the war against Xingqing, he should not clash with the Jin army as much as possible, since the Jin army took the initiative to retreat, he was not ready to look for trouble, and it was the right thing to take the provincial city wholeheartedly.

It didn't take long for the Yunjie army to still be in place, and Chen Gao led his troops, unloading their armor to carry out patrol tasks, and protecting the siege of the infantry troops, which couldn't be easier.

Cunli could not have imagined that an imminent crisis collapsed under the unyielding strength of the Song army, and the long-range attack began again, this time it was particularly violent, and the stone throwers concentrated on 17 bombardment of the city gate, hitting the city gate full of holes, and the soldiers on the city suffered heavy casualties.

When the cannon stone extended to the city, more than 1,000 Song army officials formed wave after wave of crimson waves, overwhelmingly rushing to the city wall, and the small-scale ants attached to the siege of the city, the scene was quite spectacular.

In front is a simple ladder, but behind is the thousands of troops following up, and the huge ladder car river arrow tower moves slowly, constantly approaching the city wall.

The crossbowmen in the front row entered the range of the crossbows in the city, and immediately erected the big cards to cover the crossbows behind to suppress the city.

The goose cave has begun to stretch forward, gradually approaching the city wall, and the ladder car and the arrow tower are also approaching. , some of the infantry began to erect improvised ladders.

When the Song army approached the city wall, the Xia army's crossbowmen were not vegetarians, and they also began to fight back violently, rows of crossbow arrows shot at the officials who were approaching the city, and some people threw mutton fat torches to burn the simple ladder.

Although most of the stone throwers in the city of Weicheng were destroyed by the Song army, there were still some remaining stone throwers in the city, which fired deadly stones from time to time, constantly falling outside the city, and some unlucky people were hit and broke their bones and necks.

The war is fair, and it is not because you are strong, or the so-called positive image, you can reduce casualties, as the attacker's casualties, undoubtedly higher than the defender's, fortunately, the Song army has a lot of siege equipment, as far as possible to reduce casualties.

Don't talk about the battle of the province of Weicheng, in fact, the most fierce is the battle of Xiping Mansion, the five armies of the Song army plus tens of thousands of township troops, there are seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses, and there are tens of thousands of troops in the northwest camp of the Dianqian Division in the north, it can be said that the east and southeast are reversed, and the Song army has gathered more than 100,000 people in the horse infantry army, forming the limit of a direction.

In other words, the limit of one direction, in the case of backward communications command, is generally 50,000 people, and more than 100,000 people can be said to be the limit of the limit.

The three-way attack of the Great Song Dynasty, although there are more than 300,000 people, has reached the limit of national strength, and even the treasury that has exceeded the income of the Shenzong era has been in an emergency, and it is conceivable that the cost of the war, if it were not for Wang Xiuzhuo's effective governance, I am afraid that the finances of the Great Song Dynasty would have collapsed long ago.

Returning to the number of mobilized troops, more than 100,000 troops also exceeded the command ability of Qu Duan and others, but fortunately, it was controlled by Gao Ping and Wu Jie, so as to avoid the embarrassment of poor command, and Wu Jie's 70,000 or 80,000 horses were also the limit of his command.

The fall of Dongguan City allowed the Song army to complete the sweep of Xiping Mansion and directly launch a large-scale assault on Lingwu County.

Due to the deterrence of the northwest camp, the Xia army is unlikely to surprise the transfer road, so he transferred tens of thousands of township troops from the road and carried a large number of siege equipment to support the operation.

Fortunately, the siege operation was carried out, and there was the northwest battalion of the front division of the palace to cover it, Wu Jie did not need to worry about being attacked from behind, and all departments formed a joint camp and took turns to go into battle in an orderly manner, and it didn't matter if there were more soldiers and horses.

He was not as cautious as Xu Huiyan, who spent ten days tempting, but came up as the head gun, and arrived at the front line with hundreds of heavy stone throwers, 700 bed crossbows, more than 100 ladder trucks, and 40 arrow towers.

The ladder truck is not a simple pole and ladder, but a complex construction machine, which can transport 100 people at a time and reach the city directly.

The city wall defense of Lingwu City is very ridiculous in Wu Jue's eyes, there is no sheep and horse wall by the moat, the city wall is straight, and there are not many girl walls and horse faces, and there are not many corners of the entire city wall, it is difficult to form a two-sided shooting of the siege officials, which is a weakness that is very easy to break.

This has to start from the era of Li Yuanhao, Li Jiqian seized Lingzhou, did not manage it well, the reason is very simple, the party people faced the powerful Song army, and did not have the confidence to hold Lingzhou, until the era of Li Deming, Lingwu City was rebuilt.

The party did not attach importance to defense, and did not spend much effort on simple construction, and the defense of Lingwu City was very imperfect, Li Yuanhao ascended to build the country, and moved the capital to Xingzhou, and Lingwu City was in the hinterland, so the improvement of defense was put on hold.

In the end, the party members became Xiping Mansion in Shenglingzhou, and set up the Xiangqing Army to build a military city in Lingzhou City, but did not pay attention to the defense of the city.

The reason is also very simple, they occupy Hengshan and dangerous passes, the Song army is unlikely to hit Xiping Mansion, even if the Song army arrives in Xiping, it is sleepy and lacking horses through the Hanhai, the Xia army uses iron harriers, it can be defeated lightly, Renzong is on the five roads to conquer, and all the way is defeated under the city.

However, Wu Jue's army was strong, the baggage and food were sufficient, and the left wing of the Xia army was almost completely annihilated.

Judging from the Song army, which is good at offensive and defensive warfare, as long as it concentrates its forces in a few important areas and takes advantage of these city defense weaknesses to go all out, it will not take long for the entire outer city to be taken effortlessly.

Ladder trucks approached the city walls, and more than a dozen crossbowmen on the top platform struggled to shoot arrows at the city walls.

The ladder is very strong, the top is protected by soaked animal skin, and even the strong crossbow is not easy to shoot through, as long as it is not directly hit by the catapult, even the rocket can do nothing. The interior of the car has three layers of atmosphere at the top and bottom, and hundreds of officials are fully armed and on standby.

After preparing to lean against the wall, the treads in front of the platform were lowered, and they rushed to the top of the city.

Although the Song army's long-range projection weapons had already defeated Li Liangfu's little strength, it was still impossible to completely suppress it, and people occasionally had to fight back.

But I saw that a cannon stone flew from the city and smashed directly on the platform of the ladder truck, and the huge impact force smashed the platform in all directions, and more than a dozen archers were thrown out by the huge inertia, screaming and falling to the flat ground several feet down, sometimes people are unlucky like this, and there will always be helpless things.