More than 300 Liao people pushed the tall chariot to cross the soft land in front of the side pass city, under the cover of trebuchet, braved the rain of arrows to advance to the city, although the eight ox crossbows from time to time can take away one or two Liao troops standing on the rushing car, but soon there was a replacement, those fierce Liao troops eagerly looked forward to being able to climb to the head of the city and the Song army hand-to-hand combat, for hand-to-hand combat, they were very confident.

The huge stones thrown by the trebuchets smashed into the city with an astonishing sound, even if they were hit by flying small stones, it often caused a lot of damage, there was nowhere to hide on the city, there was nowhere to hide, experienced soldiers would dodge in advance according to the screaming sound of stone projectiles cutting through the sky, and those new sergeants would only run around when they saw the sky covered with stones.

Ge Tianfang kicked a recruit in the ass, kicked him into the corner, took two steps forward, and a huge stone bullet whizzed past, smashed on the top of the solid city wall, and shattered into two petals and flew nowhere.

The city was already in a mess, full of dead bodies, looking very ugly, being hit by big stones, basically no good results, and a few brothers whose arms and legs were taken away by stone bullets were crying out in a sad way.

Ge Tianfang didn't have time to pay attention to these, stepped over a few corpses, quickly walked into the watchtower, and yelled at Tan Wei: "What are you doing, why don't you use a ballista to fight back?" If this continues, there will be few people left in the city.

Tan Wei lay at the entrance of the watchtower and looked out, and said without looking back: "The car must be killed at one time, I don't know if the ballista has a chance to fire a second time." The Liao trebuchet of the dog day is amazing. ”

As he spoke, a stone bullet bombarded the watchtower, and the arrows of the watchtower shattered and fell overhead. Falling down was accompanied by a soldier with a crossbow in his hand.

"A little closer, a little closer, as long as you rush into the range of two hundred steps, I will order a gunpowder bomb attack and tear all these dogs to pieces, old Ge, you hold on a little longer."

Ge Tianfang cursed and left the watchtower. The enemy, who usually only attacks with his own large army with long-range weapons, cannot raise his head, but now it is upside down. It's your turn to suffer.

"Hide all, hide all, and wait until the enemy's stone projectiles are finished throwing before you show up." Ge Tianfang kept wandering around the city, cheering up his subordinates. While reorganizing the defenses of the city.

It was impossible for the Liao trebuchets to stop throwing stones before the chariot approached the city wall, and their current intensive attack was to allow the chariot to catch up on the city head and start a white-knuckle battle.

This is the first day, the Liao people's attack is so crazy, from early in the morning, until the red sun is about to fall in the west, their attack has not stopped for a moment, from the ladder with wheels. To the Ludun Array, to the current rush, the tricks of the Liao people attacking the city have never been repeated. If it weren't for Tan Wei's cleverness and continuous transfer with the ballista, the ballista would have been smashed to pieces by the trebuchet of the Liao people long ago.

Ge Tianfang was a little worried, he made a rough inventory just now, and there were at least 600 soldiers killed in the battle, and the rough city defense was partial. It simply can't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Liao trebuchet.

I saw that cracks had appeared in the front city wall, revealing the pure loess inside. This made Ge Tianfang very angry, there is no difference between such a city fortification and whether there is or not.

The loess city is also exquisite, it is necessary to use rice soup straw and mud, and then use a heavy hammer to tamp layer by layer, if you are careful, such a city is not necessarily much worse than the city built of bluestone.

What's more, in such a strategic place as the pass, the imperial court allocated a huge amount of money to build a stone city, and Hua Tianshou of the dog day was stationed in the pass for more than ten years, and casually built a city pass with loess, and then added a thin layer of stone outside.

Hua Tianshou stood beside Xiao Huo'er, looked at the stone bullets flying in the sky and said with emotion: "Yun Zheng really has a set, in this kind of time when you can only be beaten and can't fight back, it's still very rare that the city is still not chaotic, but it's a pity, this city pass can't withstand the trebuchet bombardment, as long as the marshal bombards for another hour, it is guaranteed that the city wall will collapse." ”

Xiao Huo'er said with a smile: "No, at most hold on for half an hour, the most difficult thing to find in the wasteland is the right stone bomb, the most scarce thing in the partial pass generation is the stone, if you want a suitable stone, you need to go to the bank of the Yellow River to find it, the mountains here are all loess, there is no stone mountain, go to the bank of the Yellow River to find a stone back and forth two hundred miles away, too far, the stone bomb must be saved, there is an urn city behind this city pass, Yun Zheng's subordinates will not use loess to pile the city like you, it seems that they still have to rely on the rush." ”

Hua Tianshou's old face turned red, and he didn't know how to continue to talk to Xiao Huo'er.

Ge Tianfang closed his eyes and hid behind the battlements to feel the damage caused by the stone bullets falling on the city, a crack meandered from his feet to the bottom of the city wall, he stuffed his hand into the gap, and found that it was empty, so his heart also became empty,

opened his mouth and shouted at the watchtower not far away: "Tan Wei, it's time to make a move, if you don't make a move, this city wall will collapse." ”

Tan Wei opened his mouth and smiled at him with his white teeth exposed, but still did not wave the flag in his hand, it seemed that he was determined to wait for the rushing car to approach before preparing to exert his power, Ge Tianfang could only pray to God that the stone bullets of the Liao people would be used up as soon as possible.

God may have heard his plea, the dense rain of stone bullets began to become sparse, Ge Tianfang was overjoyed, carefully poked his head out to look out, and found that the trebuchet of the Liao army was slowly retreating.

He jumped out of the corner where he was hiding and shouted, "Brothers, come out quickly, the Liao people's stone bullets are finished." ”

With Ge Tianfang's roar, a dusty soldier clanged on a gong, and countless dust-faced Song soldiers came out of their hiding places, readjusted the eight bull crossbows that had not been damaged on the city's head and shot at the rushing car.

A team of craftsmen and soldiers also went up to the city from behind the city wall, and hurried to replace the damaged eight-bull crossbow, fortunately, the Song army's eight-ox crossbow hook parts have been interchanged, and some of the damaged eight-bull crossbows were quickly repaired by them, as for the eight-bull crossbow that was smashed by the trebuchet, no one could do anything.

Looking at the rain of arrows that the Song army had become dense again, Xiao Huo'er sighed and said: "Last year, Ben Shuai once wrote to the imperial court, hoping to form a real general's academy, but as a result, he was ridiculed by all his colleagues, saying that I was picking up the teeth of your Song people, and the matter was finally over, if I had enough siege equipment, I could touch it even if it was Yanmen Pass." ”

Hua Tianshou said with a smile: "I thought that Yanmen Pass should only be outwitted, not suitable for strong attack, I Song Guo has operated Yanmen Pass for 60 years, it is not an exaggeration to call it a copper wall and iron wall, I have been to Yanmen Pass, where the terrain is dangerous, heavily guarded, it is a real one man when the pass is not open in the world, but simple trebuchets and other siege equipment have little effect on the steep Yanmen Pass, narrow roads and steep cliffs, there is no place for large siege equipment.

Unless, you have powerful gunpowder shells, and only this weapon can level the unequal military status between the Liao and Song armies due to the terrain, and there is no other way. ”

Xiao Huo'er turned her head and looked at Hua Tianshou carefully: "So far, why do you still think of yourself as a Song person?" I really don't understand you, what do you say, the word righteousness, in the end, there is only yellow gold in your eyes, white silver, Hua Tianshou, you can still shut up in front of me and say nothing about the gunpowder formula, it also makes sense, I know that the formula does not have many benefits, maybe it will lead to death, I don't believe that you can keep silent in front of Your Majesty?

Don't be too greedy, you have to be able to take away the gold and silver you are given, don't be greedy for a while, so that you have no place in the Great Song Dynasty and Liao, to that point, I don't understand, what is the use of asking for so much gold and silver? Could it be that you will go to Western Xia? Do you think that woman in Western Xia can save your life? ”

Hua Tianshou said with a smile: "Gold and silver are just phantoms in the world, hunger can't eat and thirst can't drink, what's the use?" Hua Tianshou used to be trapped in this phantom and couldn't extricate himself, so he was criticized everywhere, since I met Mr., I understood a truth, people come to this world, if they can't turn their hands into clouds and cover their hands for rain, they will come in vain.

In fact, what I asked for was not gold or silver, but the gunpowder formula was used in exchange for these things, not only insulting gunpowder, but also insulting myself, and the general couldn't give me what I wanted, so I figured out that General Guò was preparing to meet His Majesty. ”

"Maitreya Sect is not tolerated in the Song Kingdom, and in my Daliao, a country that believes in Buddhism, it is also indignant to people and gods, you are distorting the doctrine, Your Majesty and the Empress are dedicated to the Buddha, and it is impossible to agree to your conditions. Instead, it will expose the relationship between me and the Maitreya Sect and bring me a catastrophe, which is not what a friend should do, maybe it would be better for me to kill you on the spot? Xiao Huo'er saw that the rushing car was about to approach the city pass in the rain of arrows, so she couldn't help but smile and said to Hua Tianshou leisurely.

Hua Tianshou turned his back on his hand, looked up at the two sides of Song Liao who were fighting, and said: "Who cares about the teachings of Maitreya, if we want to do great things, we always need to find our most basic believers, Maitreya is not bad, if His Majesty agrees to our request, it is not a big deal for us to revise the doctrine again, those who do great things are not informal, there are ancient times."

General, it's better for you to pay more attention to the battle situation, you see, the ballistas of the Song army are starting to fire large gunpowder shells, it is estimated that your rush is about to end, take a good look at the power of gunpowder bullets, don't tell me something you can't do. ”

Hua Tianshou pointed to the head of the city, and saw that the gunpowder bullets flying out of the city were the size of a human head, densely shrouded in the top of the three rushing cars. (To be continued)

PS: Chapter one