These big cities have a complete defense system, each city gate is a relatively independent defense point, and even can be defended with residential houses, breaking through the city is the first step to victory, and it is also the beginning of the most arduous battle to attack the point, if you are not careful, it will be beaten out, it is not impossible, and it is not alarmist.

In that year, the Song army attacked Jibei and once entered Youzhou City, but was counterattacked by the Khitans. Similarly, the Jin army took advantage of the chaos to seize the outer city of Kaifeng, although because of the armed street fighting of the residents, the frightened troops did not dare to go down, but there was no lack of Kaifeng defense system perfect, so that the Jin army was quite a headache, and turned to the blackmail strategy, which shows that it is not easy to capture the big city.

In that year, the Jin army went south twice and besieged the city of Taiyuan for nearly 300 days before taking it. As for those big cities with two rivers, even when the Jurchens bullied the Zhao family's royal family, few of them were really defeated, and most of them were abandoned.

Just as, in important towns such as Xiangzhou and Daimyo, the Jin army could not take the main city at all, and almost all of them were abandoned by the vassals, so they were led by the Jin army.

Xiping Mansion is an important town in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, it is true that it is bad in the hands of the party members, and the defense power is even worse than that year, but it is still comparable to the city of Dazhou in the mainland, and the foundation of the defense system is still there, and if you want to take it down, you have to take it step by step.

What's more, the Xiangqing army is located in Xiping Mansion, which means that the inner city is a military city, and the defense system is more complete than the general inner city, and it needs to be fought hard.

However, Li Liangfu understood that he was no longer able to return to the sky, and he could delay it for as long as he could, and he did not expect to be able to counterattack the Song army.

Due to the issuance of the military order, some troops of the Xia army were still able to hold on, but more people scattered in a hurry, either starting to surrender in formation, or running to the military city without a life, anyway, it was a mess.

Wu Jue was very satisfied, this important military town had fallen, he could reorganize his troops and horses, and launch an attack on Xingqing from the south, not lagging behind the front division of the palace, and complaining about the Quduan of the province, he could also raise his eyebrows.

On the same day, Gaoping launched the battle of crossing the river, with more than 50,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 township troops, which was a very strong assault force, whether it was command and dispatch or order and prohibition, it was extremely challenging.

The big river crossing in the east of Baojing City in Jingzhou is not too spacious, and it is full of boats shuttling back and forth, and simple rafts account for most of it. Each ship had a large defense in front of it to defend against crossbow fire, and the rafts were crowded with Song soldiers in iron armor and scarlet military uniforms.

It is said that it is best to cross the river lightly, and if you fall into the water in iron armor, you are likely to be drowned, but when the Song army lands, you need to go into battle, and they have to risk putting on their armor.

Ren Decong and Guli Hei climbed high and overlooked and witnessed the spectacular scene of the Song army crossing the river.

"It's really too deceitful, can't you fight back?" Ren Decong was very unwilling, the Song army crossed the river unscrupulously, and the counterattack of the Xia army could not satisfy him.

However, on the position of the Xia army on the west bank, a large crossbow and a stone throwing machine continuously fired artillery stones and large arrows at the river surface, and behind the wooden fence on the river bank, rows of crossbowmen took turns to release arrows.

However, Xia Jun's stone thrower is obviously inferior to Song Jun, and the accuracy is also extremely low, most of the artillery stones fall in the water, stirring up more than a foot high waves, close to the boat, the impact force shakes the boat left and right, and the people on it are difficult to stand firm, and they are shaken and swayed.

Occasionally hit a few ships, the damage is quite amazing, no ship can withstand the blow of artillery, the middle of the ship is all destroyed and killed, fortunately this probability is extremely low, otherwise the Song army soldiers will be unlucky, at least they have no time to unload the armor.

The river is not wide, but for the Song soldiers on the boat, it is the longest journey in their lives, and it is too terrifying to sit and wait for the arrangement of fate, one by one the artillery stones that stir up the waves, the crossbow arrows flying overhead, and the anxious listening to the tragic sound of the battlefield, it is simply a journey to hell.

The strong crossbow has exerted a certain power, and the shield is useless for the defense of the big arrow, but it is a pity that the Xia army has always emphasized visual warfare and emphasized mobility, and this kind of big crossbow is not equipped much, not to mention the lack of excellent trees in the territory, and it is obviously not possible to temporarily hold Buddha's feet, and it is impossible to form a sustained and effective blow to the Song army.

The bows and crossbows along the river also pose a certain threat to the Song army, but the big names on the ship can effectively defend themselves, and they can only occasionally kill or injure one or two people, and they can only cause a certain amount of damage when they get off the boat, which is really disturbing.

It's just that those Song military officials are not vegetarians, and the crossbowmen are under the cover of the sword soldiers, and they use their bows and crossbows to shoot at the Xia army, and there are more and more people who land, crimson military uniforms, black lacquered iron armor, embroidered leopard heads, crescent moon and white vests, and they are the Tianwu Army, which has formed two defensive positions, and they insist on not giving up an inch of land.

Even, the two small-scale counterattacks of the township army were also disintegrated by the Song army's divine arm bow, leaving a large number of corpses instead.

Gu Lihei was very frustrated, the Song army's attack was very sharp, and he didn't have many troops, even if his horse army could charge, he couldn't rely on the front. Not to mention the sharp crossbow arrows of the Song army, even the heavy stone throwers erected on the river bank, were enough to make the Ma army suffer heavy losses.

It was a heavy stone thrower from Lailiang, equipped with a strong spring made of stainless steel, which could make the stone thrower withstand more impact force and fire artillery at a longer range, and the first batch of troops of the Tianwu Army gained a firm foothold, so they quickly set up these stone throwers and loaded iron shells to attack the Xia army.

Look at the iron shells, with a sharp whistling sound, falling to the ground and exploding, although they have not yet reached the main position of the Xia army, they show a certain might, to crush all the daring counterattacks.

"What do you think of the capital army, and will you fight back again?" Ren Decong didn't see the black answer, and couldn't help but ask, he didn't know how to fight.

"How to fight back? Without seeing their artillery, our horse army would have been sent to death. Bone Power said in a deep voice, but secretly scolded Ren Decong in his heart for not knowing how to shout.

"Half-crossing, you can't let them stand firm." Ren Decong's face was ugly, and he was apprehensive about the power of the iron cannon bullet in the distance.

Guli Hei is so tired of it, this guy in front of him who doesn't know how to learn and has no skills, he doesn't know how to interfere in military affairs, and Lang's life is a joke. Ma Jun's advantage is speed and bows, and if you let them into the range of the stone thrower and the crossbow, and limit the limited space, it is equivalent to sending meat to the opponent's mouth, and he is not so stupid.

What else do you say about half-crossing it, and you don't see people standing firm?

"The firearms of the Southern Dynasty are sharp, and the horse army is good for speed, so it must not be suppressed by the river." I don't want to explain the explanation, who makes the family favored.

Ren Decong was a little panicked, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "What should I do, they crossed the river, and they must be attacking Baojing." ”