Above the head of Anxi County, Di Yong looked to the south, surrounded by busy people, the tiles of the roof, the masonry on the wall, the stones of the foundation, the measurement of the roof, the door and bed boards, piled up everywhere.

Ma Niu was already shouting: "The officers and soldiers are coming, brothers, don't be afraid, the officers and soldiers can't come up to this high wall." ”

"Don't be afraid, as long as we win this incident, the surrounding seven or eight prefectures and counties will be ours."

"There are only two or three thousand officers and soldiers, and we have tens of thousands, don't be afraid!"

Ma Niu has not yet learned a bluffing skill, with more than 8,000 people under his command, but he only dares to blow 10,000, and he does not want the Liao Imperial Court, 1230,000 people, but he dares to claim 700,000.

If it is according to this ratio, Ma Niu should also say that he has an army of 60,000.

The ancient army, full of 10,000, is all over the mountains, and from the perspective of ordinary people, it is difficult to count. The only people who can really judge the specific number of people according to the scale and density of the line of sight are the kind of veterans who have really been in battle for a long time, such as Di Qing or Zhao Zi.

So bluffing is a lot of the time. 1230,000 people, and 700,000 people, the vast majority of people are difficult to distinguish the teacups with the naked eye, including Ganqi at this time, and they may not be able to distinguish them specifically. Because although Gan Qi also led troops to fight, he had never seen people all over the mountains.

Xiao Da of Anxizhi County came back, and came back with more than 2,000 troops, including infantry and cavalry, iron armor and leather armor, this is the regular army, the leather room army. A small fraction of the 300,000 registered leather chamber troops of the Liao State.

Note that the word "in the book" is also particular, and there is a difference between "book" and reality, and the Liao and Song dynasties have long been half a catty and eight taels in this regard.

The Liao State is no longer the Khitan State that used to have only 30,000 leather room troops.

Xiao Da, who came back again, obviously had confidence, as a nobleman of the Liao State, wearing a suit of armor, he also looked mighty, he personally hit the horse and approached, and shouted as soon as he opened his mouth: "Bandits, the imperial army has arrived, don't hurry up and arrest it." ”

Ma Niu looked left and right, and knew that he should strike at the enemy's momentum, so he stepped forward to reply.

But before Ma Niu's words were spoken, Di Junshi next to him had already raised his leg to pull the string, and a divine arm bow had already been wound, and the arrow was on it, and he raised his hand to shoot.

The feather arrow broke through the air, and with a sharp sound, he saw Xiao Da, who was a hundred steps away from the city, fall off his horse and screamed.

The crossbow of the god arm, the Song Dynasty standard of the crossbow, the so-called tension, is to step on the crossbow arm with the legs, both hands to use all their strength to pull the bowstring of the crossbow, this kind of crossbow, the bow body length is three feet three, the string length is two feet five, the best quality, the range can be as high as more than 240 steps, with the arrow made of fine iron, can penetrate the heavy armor.

Divine arm bow, even if the average military man can not pull it away even if he uses his hands and feet together, even if he can pull away this kind of crossbow, most of them can't pull it up when they stand, they have to lie on the ground and curl up, step on the crossbow arm with both feet, pull the bowstring with both hands, and use their legs and hands plus the strength of their waist and abdomen to open their bodies on the ground to hang the bowstring. There are very few people like Di Yong who can stand and use their hands and feet and open their crossbows.

This kind of crossbow is not as powerful as the drawn bow in hand. The divine arm bow represents the pinnacle of the handicraft industry and technical level of the Song Dynasty. It represents the deepest technical accumulation of war weapons in China for thousands of years.

In the past, before the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the bow and crossbow that shot and killed Xiao Tzulin, the commander of the Liao State's leading army, was a variant of this thing, the Eight Bull Crossbow, and the three divine arm bows were combined with technology to become the Eight Bull Crossbow, also known as the bed crossbow.

Before the big array, the enemy's commander must have been quite far away, and it was impossible for the Song army to get too close, but he was killed on the spot by the Song army with an arrow, which shows that there were countless masters in the Song army at that time. The name of the person who shot Xiao Tzu Rin was Zhang Gui, a military general with no low status, who shot Xiao Tart Rin in the forehead with an arrow from a bed crossbow, causing the Liao army to die down and return one after another, and also directly contributed to the conclusion of the alliance of Lan Yuan.

The crossbow of the Song Dynasty has reached its peak.

Xiao Da, who had already fallen off his horse in response to the arrow, the Liao army a hundred and ten steps away, was in a mess, raising shields to save people.

Ma Niu looked at Di Yong with shock on his face, he knew that Di Yong's martial arts were extraordinary, but the technique of raising his hand and shooting people off the horse with an arrow from a hundred and ten steps away was too terrifying, and his skills were general, where had Ma Niu seen this kind of thing in his life?

Ma Niu looked at Di Yong, and then looked up at Xiao Da in the distance, the bright long arrow, inserted in Xiao Da's iron armor, straight and straight, this is obviously shot into the armor after penetrating the armor.

Ma Niu looked at the crossbow in Di Yong's hand again, he knew that this crossbow was sent from the sea, and specifically said that this crossbow was given to Di Yong, but he didn't expect this crossbow to be so powerful.

Ma Niu shouted excitedly: "The military advisor is mighty!" ”

Then the audience shouted: "The military division is mighty, the military division is mighty!" ”

Di Yong also smiled and waved his hand to signal to everyone, this hand was deliberately revealed by him, without him, to inspire the army's heart.

Di Yong also pretended to be extremely forced: "Liao people, but Er'er, will collapse at the first touch!" ”

"The military advisor is invincible! Ten thousand armies in the bush to take the head of the enemy general is like probing the bag to get something! Ma Niu also seemed to know that the military heart was available, and shouted again.

"Long live the military advisor, long live the military advisor!"

Di Yong still waved his hand left and right, and shouted: "As soon as the fighter arrives, I will lead the army out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

"Kill, kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"

"Kill Liaogou!"

Di Yong really wants to go out of the city, if he wants to win, he must go out of the city to fight, otherwise the enemy army will not be able to rout and leave, because Di Yong is the turtle in the urn, but the enemy occupies the right time and place, and does not worry about food and drinking water. If there is no decisive battle for a long time and the siege continues, Di Yong's side may have a big mess in people's hearts, and the thieves are rabble, and they can't think too well.

If you want to open up the situation, this thing of going out of the city for a decisive battle must be done.

But now, natural defense is essential, the enemy must attack the city, and the siege is also a good thing for Di Yong, first consume the enemy's vital strength, repulse a few waves, let the enemy's power go away, and then go out of the city to get twice the result with half the effort.

So Di Yong shouted: "Prepare for battle, defend the city, put up the door and bed boards, the enemy is coming with a rain of arrows." ”

With an army of 8,000 thieves, Di Yong may really have actual combat experience in war. I am very familiar with the siege routines, and the countermeasures are well prepared.

"Shield!"

"Shield!"

There were shouts from above the city, and the doors, beds, and even the dining tables were erected to block the people one by one.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Liao people's counterattack to come, and the arrows rained down!

Everyone at the head of the city hid behind makeshift shields and listened to the tinkling of planks.

Di Yong also thought in his heart, fortunately, the enemy also came in a hurry, and he had not really prepared for a tough battle, if the enemy had made real preparations, there must be such a thing as trebuchets at this time, as long as there were a dozen or so simple trebuchets, I was afraid that they could also scare these thousands of thieves into panic.

If there are a few really fine stone cannons, that is, a more sophisticated trebuchet, and a huge stone is smashed, a battlement of masonry is shattered, and then there may be a direct chaos on the city. To resist this kind of siege weapon, not only need the military to have a very high psychological quality, but also need the commander to calm down, need to let the defenders of the city to hide under the city, and wait until the enemy begins to climb the wall before going to the city, this kind of command is extremely testing the commander's ability, a careless, opportunity for the enemy to easily climb up to the city.

The power of this kind of stone cannon can never be underestimated, and the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge, who spanned Europe and Asia in history, was killed by this stone cannon in the Diaoyu City of the Southern Song Dynasty.

These things, the Liao State actually has them, because the Liao State has the sixteen states of Yanyun, which has been the land of Yan Zhao's strong soldiers since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the craftsmen here are very good at making these things.

In other words, once the Liao State lost the sixteen states of Yanyun and these five or six million Han people. Not only was the strategic place lost, but the Liao State also lost the real production base, from iron armor to weapons, even pots and pans, to bows and ballistas, and the Liao State no longer had the ability to produce these things. Back in the grassland and the Liao Kingdom in eastern Liao, he is not much more clever than the savage Jurchen.

To put it bluntly, no matter what historical period, if the nomadic fishing and hunting people want to defeat the Central Plains Dynasty, they have to have Han people. The Mongols not only wanted Han Chinese craftsmen, but also captured countless craftsmen from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. At that time, the level of civilization in Central Asia was also quite high, and when the Jin State was attacked, I don't know how many Central Asian slaves were producing these things behind the Mongol army.

is also like the rise of the Western Xia party members a few decades ago, at that time it was the Han Zhang Yuan who assisted Li Yuanhao, and in the battle of Haoshuichuan, it was Zhang Yuan who mainly gave advice, and Zhang Yuan was also the prime minister of Western Xia. Zhang Yuan, who was originally a scholar in Shaanxi, failed to pass the test repeatedly, and even was brushed down when he was admitted to the palace examination, Zhang Yuan was angry, and felt that he was very talented and talented, and ran to Xixia in a fit of anger, and was deeply reused by Li Yuanhao, and was a good hand in internal and foreign affairs and military affairs.

After defeating the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Yuan felt that he had finally proved himself, or that his breath that he had tried and failed to meet was finally out, and even wrote a poem to ridicule Xia Zhu and Han Qi: Xia Zhu He once shrugged, Han Qi was not surprised. The dragon and tiger in the river are still talking about military aircraft.

To the effect that Xia Zhu, the Shaanxi Fourth Road Transit Strategy, is not very good, Han Qi is not very powerful, and the entire Song army of Haoshuichuan has been run around, you two Jinshi and the first prime minister, what are you still talking about fighting and leading troops?

In fact, in the final analysis, it is the two Jinshi Xianggong who are reused by the imperial court, which are far worse than my Zhang Yuan's landing show, you didn't want me in the imperial examination at the beginning, do you regret it now? It's too late to regret it!

Zhang Yuan's mood is actually understandable, he has read a full stomach of poetry and books, but he is not reused by the imperial court. The imperial court used Han Qi's Jinshi and the first, and then Zhang Yuan's Luodi Xiu defeated Xia Zhu and Han Qi. This kind of feeling, just in terms of personal feelings, is really very relieving.

Productivity, technical level, handicraft accumulation, education level, vision and insight, these are the most important reliance of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Even in the era of the Song Dynasty, when warriors were like dogs, the imperial court could still rely on these things to resist Liaoxia Jin, and also blocked Mongolia for more than a hundred years.

This is the real strength foundation of the Central Plains Dynasty.

All this is embodied in the divine arm crossbow in Di Yong's hand. From the beginning of the Han Dynasty's drive to the Huns, the crushing of technology has been laid, and crossbows were used on the battlefield on a large scale at that time, and the Huns were beaten into dogs. The primitive bows of the Huns could not even penetrate the armor of the Han army.

The Liao army outside Anxi City, after a few more rounds of unsuccessful counterattacks, began to really prepare for the siege battle.

Logging, building ladders. Gather all the shields together.

Ladders are the simplest tools and are easy to build. The whole army cut down wood to build ladders, and it didn't take long for hundreds of simple ladders to stand in front of the battle.

The Khitans began to bury the pot to cook, before the war, they couldn't eat too much, everyone hurriedly filled their stomachs, drank a few sips of water, the drums had risen, and they rushed to the city.

Di Yong at the head of the city shouted again: "Vertical shield, vertical shield!" ”

The drumbeat began to tighten, and it was already mid-afternoon, and the sun began to change color, shining yellow on the armor.

The footsteps of the Liao army have risen, and the rain of arrows has come.

Di Yong did not fight back, hiding under the battlement, suffering from waves of arrows. Because he knew that after a while, when the Liao army approached, the rain of arrows would stop for a while, and then it would be time to counterattack.

Productivity, technical level, handicraft accumulation, education level, vision and insight, these are the most important reliance of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Even in the era of the Song Dynasty, when warriors were like dogs, the imperial court could still rely on these things to resist Liaoxia Jin, and also blocked Mongolia for more than a hundred years.

This is the real strength foundation of the Central Plains Dynasty.

All this is embodied in the divine arm crossbow in Di Yong's hand. From the beginning of the Han Dynasty's drive to the Huns, the crushing of technology has been laid, and crossbows were used on the battlefield on a large scale at that time, and the Huns were beaten into dogs. The primitive bows of the Huns could not even penetrate the armor of the Han army.

The Liao army outside Anxi City, after a few more rounds of unsuccessful counterattacks, began to really prepare for the siege battle.

Logging, building ladders. Gather all the shields together.

Ladders are the simplest tools and are easy to build. The whole army cut down wood to build ladders, and it didn't take long for hundreds of simple ladders to stand in front of the battle.

The Khitans began to bury the pot to cook, before the war, they couldn't eat too much, everyone hurriedly filled their stomachs, drank a few sips of water, the drums had risen, and they rushed to the city.

Di Yong at the head of the city shouted again: "Vertical shield, vertical shield!" ”

The drumbeat began to tighten, and it was already mid-afternoon, and the sun began to change color, shining yellow on the armor.

The footsteps of the Liao army have risen, and the rain of arrows has come.

Di Yong did not fight back, hiding under the battlement, suffering from waves of arrows. Because he knew that after a while, when the Liao army approached, the rain of arrows would stop for a while, and then it would be time to counterattack.

returned to the Northern Song Dynasty to be a big man

returned to the Northern Song Dynasty to be a big man