The Tangut people were not nomadic tribes, because in terms of their population and area, they could not pull such a large number of soldiers and horses if they were engaged in nomadism.

They are also engaged in farming, and there are many Han people scattered here in the pre-Tang Dynasty. Therefore, when attacking the city, all kinds of equipment are still in shape.

At the forefront were more than a hundred shield wagons, which were used to protect thousands of crossbowmen and send them close to the city to engage the defenders.

The shield cart was followed by a ladder, and thousands of armored soldiers raised their shields around the many ladders, ready to climb the city wall.

In addition, there was a large chariot covered with iron plates and cooked cowhide, which was used to ram the gates of the walled city.

As for the rest, there was nothing but tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers carrying sacks full of sand and earth ready to fill the moat.

The Tangut people are very confident.

Although it feels like Jinmingzhai is much larger than before, and there are many more defense facilities.

But in the face of hundreds of thousands of troops, it is still a small place that can be wiped out in a snap of a finger.

The shield cart ran fast, and when it came into range, it stopped and gathered to form a barrier, and the crossbowmen in the back lined up and began to suppress the city.

Then tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers rushed forward with shouts, ready to fill the moat.

All the generals at the head of the city looked at Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao nodded slowly.

The drums in the city sounded, and a large number of crossbowmen suddenly poured out from the previously suppressed city, and rows of arrows rained down from the sky, killing and injuring a large number of Western Xia crossbowmen who were responsible for covering below.

The condescending defenders were clearly more advantageous, and they mostly used powerful divine arm bows. Under the fierce shooting, the crossbowmen of the Tangut suffered great losses.

Having shot the crossbowmen, the defenders turned their focus and began to deal with the reclaimed soldiers.

These miscellaneous soldiers, who did not even have armor, were almost powerless to fight back. Pieces were shot on the ground.

The Tangut side quickly made adjustments, and more crossbowmen were mobilized, and they rushed directly behind the shield car array to forcibly suppress them.

Seeing this scene, Wang Xiao raised his hand and waved forward.

The defenders uncovered the cloth covering the crossbows and fired at the shield carts.

The arrows of the eight-ox crossbow are longer than a person's thigh and thicker than an arm. Under a strong driving force, the power is amazing.

Even a sturdy shield cart was shattered by the fire of the Eight Bull Crossbow.

The Eight Ox Crossbow was not used before, just to attract more crossbowmen from the Tangut people to come and send them to death.

Without the protection of the shield chariot, many Western Xia crossbowmen who only wore light armor and leather armor were directly exposed to the eyes of the defenders.

The crossbowmen on both sides shot each other, and it was really arrows flying all over the sky.

The defenders were protected by walls and shield-raising armour, and suffered much less losses than from the outside.

The miscellaneous soldiers of the Tangut people here, after paying huge losses, finally filled in a section of the moat.

Then the rush car approached the ladder and began the most tragic siege battle.

Rolling wood and stones fell from the sky, and gold juice and oil poured down into a pot. Thousands of armor soldiers gathered under the city, and it was really a large area.

If there is no Ming Jin in the rear, then it can only continue to fight.

The Western Xia warriors suffered heavy casualties and climbed up the ladder.

A soldier with a horizontal knife in his mouth, climbing with one hand and holding a shield in the other, had just shown his head on the top of the city when he was pierced in the eye by a shot from the defenders, and fell down screaming.

Then a second, a third, a fourth...

It wasn't until the eleventh that the thick-armored Western Xia warrior swung a few spears with his shield and jumped onto the city with a roar.

The Western Xia army, who was watching the battle from afar, suddenly burst into cheers.

This is the highest precedent achievement.

The Western Xia warrior roared angrily, raised his horizontal sword, and prepared to protect the gap. But there was a 'boom' sound in the distance.

A sharp arrow whistled and pierced through his gaping mouth.

The strong momentum carried the Western Xia warrior backwards and fell directly from the city.

The cheers of the Tangut people in the distance suddenly stopped.

Wang Xiao lowered his bow and set his eyes on the camp of the Xixia people representing the emperor's identity in the distance.

Over there, there is a group of thousands of ironclad heavy cavalry, that is, the famous Iron Harriers.

"Iron Harrier, you can't beat it head-on. It can only be that they will not be given a chance to wear armor and get on the horse. ”

When the corpses under the city were piled up, the sound of gold finally sounded in the main formation of the Tangut people in the distance.

After going back, the Tangut people calculated that they had lost tens of thousands of people if they added miscellaneous soldiers!

A small Jinming village is actually as strong as this!

The morale of the Tanguts was visibly damaged, and they did not attack for the next two days.

However, on the third day, when the Western Xia people were besieging from all sides, Wang Xiao immediately judged that this was a general attack.

The battle on this day was extremely fierce. The four walls of the city were breached to varying degrees, and in the most urgent time, even the people went to the top of the city. The forts outside the city were all breached.

Standing at the head of the city and looking out, all I saw was a blood-red color.

"If you do it again tomorrow, I guess I won't be able to hold it."

Zhang Yu, who was hanging his arm, came to Wang Xiao's side and expressed his opinion worriedly.

"Again?" Wang Xiao laughed: "How many strong men do you think can be in Western Xia to attack the city like this, regardless of losses." Today they have lost at least nearly 20,000 people. If they come back tomorrow, they'll have to dismount the Iron Harrier. ”

Wang Xiao stood at the head of the city and looked at the Xixia camp in the distance, taking a deep breath and feeling the breath of the battlefield.

After a while, he turned his head to look at Zhang Yu on the side, and said seriously, "The Xixia people are leaving." ”

"Huh?"

Wang Xiao's battlefield intuition was very keen, and the Tanguts were indeed preparing to withdraw their troops.

Just like Wang Xiao said, how many people did Western Xia have, how many strong men, and how many armor soldiers could fight the city.

Bury the young men under this small walled city, and the Western Xia will also die.

The losses were so heavy that the morale of the Tangut people was extremely low. In order to maintain morale, a large amount of alcohol had to be issued for the sergeants to get drunk.

Because all the timber was used to build siege equipment, the Tangut camp had few fences to keep horses away.

They never thought that the defenders in the city would be killed, and the focus was on the outside to guard against the reinforcements of the surrounding walled city.

Therefore, when Wang Xiao and his men and horses took advantage of the cover of night to kill, the camp of the Tangut people was defenseless, and because they had to withdraw their troops, the camp was very chaotic.

When the battle was at its worst before, Wang Xiao did not use the reserve of a thousand people in the city.

As a veteran of the battlefield for many years, he knows that he must have a reserve in his hands at all times.

When Napoleon was at Waterloo, he failed to break through the Allied positions even because he sent his last reserves. By the time the coalition counterattacked, he had no last resistance left, which eventually led to the collapse of the entire army.

And now, Wang Xiao has used this reserve team.

Wang Xiao personally led the 1,000 people as the vanguard to attack the camp, and Zhang Yu and others led a large team of men and horses to see the situation in the back.

In addition to the wounded soldiers, all personnel were dispatched. This time, even those people were mobilized.

Wang Xiao's first target was the Iron Harrier. This was the only strong army in the hands of the Tangut people that could be used immediately at this time.

In order to confuse the enemy army, he even asked his sergeants to put on the armor that had been ripped off the battlefield and swaggered through the camp with the banner of the Tanguts.

The Tangut people, who were in chaos and frustration, really didn't notice that something was wrong.

"Something is wrong with them!"

When approaching the Iron Harrier camp, someone finally realized that this army was not his own.

Wang Xiao immediately reached out and tore off the blood-stained Xixia clothes and armor on his body, and rushed out first with a knife in one hand, "Set fire to the stable!" ”

Most of the Iron Harrier's skills are on horseback. Without horses, their threat would be much lower.

The Song army followed Wang Xiao into the camp of the Iron Harrier, turning a blind eye to the panicked Tanguts elsewhere.

Torches are lit and torches are lit to the hay and tents.

In the darkness of the night, the churning fires were extremely dazzling.

"Kill!" Zhang Yu, who saw the firelight in the distance, roared and rushed out, followed by a dense group of defenders.

The camp of the Iron Harrier is actually the camp of the lord of the Western Xia, because the main job of the iron harrier is the guard and honor guard of the lord of the Western Xia.

Wang Xiao shouted, "Set fire, leave these people alone, go find the lord of Western Xia!" ”

Li Qianshun's big tent is extremely conspicuous. Not only is it the biggest, but it's also the most gorgeous. Right in the very heart of the Iron Harrier camp.

Wang Xiao, who was holding a horizontal knife in one hand and a torch in the other, took the lead. The sword flew and slashed at everyone who stood in his way, and his eyes were fixed on the big tent and nothing else could be seen.

'Ah~~~'

Wang Xiao, who was covered in blood, split the thick door curtain with a knife, turned sideways to avoid a sharp blade that slashed over, and crashed into it as soon as he retracted his footsteps.

There were many people in the big tent.

Among them is a young woman in her thirties, dressed in a gorgeous palace dress. She was still holding a teenager in her arms.

There are a lot of people gathered around, including civil officials, chamberlains, palace maids, and so on.

There were also two generals in iron armor, who were knocked to the ground by Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao raised his sword and stepped forward, and directly understood the two generals who wanted to struggle to get up. Immediately, the tent screamed again and again.

At this time, Song Jun, who followed him to kill, also ran in, covered in blood and vicious. Many of the palace maids who were frightened fainted.

Zhang Yu's brigade of soldiers and horses had already entered the camp, and they were also lighting fires everywhere and fighting fiercely everywhere.

The camp of the Western Xia army was almost defenseless, and morale was low, and many people drank alcohol.

In the face of the sudden night attack, the entire camp fell into great panic and collapse.

Listening to all kinds of sounds coming from outside, Wang Xiao carried a blood-dripping horizontal knife in one hand and walked towards the mother and son.

"Bold!"

A civil servant jumped out and said, "How dare you..."

The sword flashed, and the civil official was directly in a different place.

Another group of chamberlains and palace maids were frightened and fainted.

Now no one dares to step forward to stop and show their character.

No matter how hard the bone is, it can't be as hard as a steel knife.

Wang Xiao walked up to the trembling mother and son, raised his hand to wipe the blood stains on his face, and showed a terrifying smile.

"Empress Dowager Liang, Lord Li. My official family has admired the two for a long time, and they have already prepared drinks and dishes in Bianliang City and arranged the garden of the mansion. Are you ready? ”