Chapter 96: The Scarlet Sun
The Western Army is like a chicken blood, layer after layer of crossbowmen approaching under the cover of the shield soldiers, this method of using the shield soldiers to cover the advance of the crossbowmen is Liu Fa's originality, which requires the tacit understanding of the two arms, otherwise it will not only delay the speed of the attack, but also increase the casualties, and can only be used on specific occasions.
The terrain is narrow, and it is a sloping terrain, such as the rapid impact of the Wa army village is suitable for the shield soldiers to cover the crossbowmen advance in the formation, plus the enemy on the wall does not have too many rolling wood and thunder stones, so this method of battle has played a huge advantage, on the contrary, in Shuofang City, you can't do this, because where there is no speed, the casualties are huge, don't even think about breaking the city.
Wuzang Qiliang also realized that something was wrong at this time, and while he sent someone to inform his father, he ordered an additional thousand people to go up to the city to strengthen the defense.
One general is incompetent and exhausts thousands of troops. The space at the head of the city was not called narrow in the first place, but now with an increase of 1,000 people, it has become a live target, and the casualties are greater under the cover of the Song army's large density of arrows, and it does not play a role in strengthening the defense.
After paying the price of five or six hundred casualties, the western army finally covered the battering ram to the gate of the fortress and began to hit the gate with a huge battering ram.
The whole cottage is made of wood, and how strong can the gate be? Under the continuous impact of the battering ram, the gate of the cottage collapsed, and the western army rushed into the Wa military village like a flood, and the two sides launched a tear in a small space.
The opening of the gate was only a little more than a zhang wide, but it was very deep, and it was filled with Western Xia soldiers, who desperately shot with crossbow arrows to block the Western army's attack.
The knife cart, the siege equipment of the king of street battles, finally exerted its great power, this one looks like a tool armed to the teeth, similar to a hedgehog is an ancient tank, rampage on the battlefield, for example, huge.
The knife cart is about more than two meters high, more than one meter wide, there are dozens of sharp knives more than a foot long on the front baffle, and the back is in the air, the soldiers can stand inside and shoot arrows outside, and there are more than a dozen soldiers pushing behind, that is, they are not afraid of the crossbow arrows of the defensive soldiers, nor are they afraid of spears, and the obstruction of the spears and spears is just a little bit of advance advancement, in the street fighting, like a flock of sheep in the tiger, constantly crushing and impacting the Western Xia soldiers.
Once the city gate is lost, it means that the Wa army can't hold it, and at this moment, Wuzang Qiliang is a little red-eyed, this guy personally led the army down the wall and rushed towards the gate.
If Brother Richard, the king of Jin, knew this scene, he would definitely vomit blood angrily, and as the general of the city guard, Wuzang Qiliang easily gave up the defense of the city, which made the defense of the city head chaotic and full of loopholes.
The nest cart, which was several feet higher than the wall, finally slowly advanced to the outside of the wall, and after hooking the wall with a huge hook, the archers on it fired crossbow arrows from top to bottom, and the soldiers quickly put the planks on the wall, and the western army rushed to the city head under the cover of crossbow arrows, and the two sides launched the fiercest bloody battle on the wall.
One by one, the nest cars approached the city wall, and countless western troops rushed to the city, and at this moment, the already congested city was full of soldiers, and there were bloody battles everywhere. At this moment, there is no longer any tactics, only the will to fight, the physical strength, either to kill the other party, or to be killed by the other party.
Every time the fierce western army rushed to the top of the city, it was like a tiger descending from the mountain desperately attacking the enemy, and the impact was getting bigger and bigger.
The Western Xia soldiers are to protect their families and defend the country, for them, once the cottage is conquered, their wives and children will suffer a catastrophe, at this time the blood in their bones is completely stimulated, and they are like mad dogs attacking the Western Army.
Two armies that did not want to die tore apart in the small space of the wall, and both sides killed in the dark. After all, there was no unified command before, the defense was chaotic, and the position was encroached on by the Western army little by little, in this case, it was even more difficult to hold the wall than to ascend to the sky.
The situation on the walled wall is precarious, but the situation inside the walled gate is even worse, although there is no hidden Qiliang who is extremely brave and good at fighting, but this kind of street fighting, personal courage can not play a big role.
The weapon that has disappeared on the battlefield for many years has reappeared, but this one has been personally improved by Liu Fa, if the knife car is like the primitive tank in ancient times, then the knife car is the most primitive armored car. This well-sealed chariot is covered with thick cowhide, and its own baffle is very strong, which can completely ignore the opponent's crossbow arrows, and the shooting holes on the body continue to have crossbow arrows shooting, this kind of crossbow arrows are fixed in the body, operated by two soldiers, and the lethality is huge, whether it is long-range or melee combat, it can bring huge damage to the enemy.
The brave and good fighter did not hide Qiliang had never seen the chariot, seeing that there were constantly crossbow arrows shot out inside, hunting his own men, killing the red eye, he rushed over desperately, this guy picked up the chariot with both hands and wanted to overturn the car.
The cart weighing 1,000 catties was overturned, and the soldiers inside died tragically, but Wuzang Qiliang was also shot by a crossbow arrow, and his abdomen, thighs, and chest were shot through, and this guy struggled for a long time, and then fell to the ground, and his head was cut off by the Western Army.
The Western Xia army, which had lost its main general, finally collapsed on all fronts under the impact of sword carts and chariots, and constantly retreated, and could no longer resist the ferocious attack of the Western army.
"Attack." Li Junke, who was in charge of the main attack, gave the order for the general attack, this guy was vengeful, and the whole person kept rushing forward, if it weren't for the duty of the main general that made him unable to charge on the front line, he would have rushed to the front long ago, which is also the biggest difference between a good general and a fierce general.
Li Junke's success is that he can clearly know his duties, no matter how he rushes and kills, he has to command the army, so he leads the army to break the city. And Wuzang Qiliang is a fierce general, he is always on the front line when he rushes and kills, which can stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers, but it is extremely dangerous for the entire position, once he dies, then the defense line will collapse across the line.
A day of bloody battles, a large number of Western troops poured into the Wa military village, when the sky was dark, the melee had reached the most critical time, almost the entire military village, everywhere was killing, the fierce Xixia people rushed out of the house, men, women and children all went into battle to kill the enemy.
Where there is resistance, where there is elastic pressure in wine.
Liu Fa issued an order to slaughter the city, since the men, women, and children of the Western Xia people went to the battlefield, then they would directly slaughter the city, as long as they rushed out of the house, whether it was a man or a woman, they would all be killed.
The entire Ah Wa military village seemed to have been cursed by the gods, killing everywhere, blood everywhere, severed arms and limbs, rolling heads, trampled corpses, this scene was terrible.
At night, no one could see the blood, but they knew that they had either killed or been killed by each other. An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood. The Tangut people used the most stubborn resistance to defend the Wa military village, but in the face of the well-trained Western army, this chaotic self-preservation could only increase more casualties, and could not stop the pace of the Western army's advance at all.
The killings, screams, and fires in the night foreshadowed the brutality of the battle, because it foreshadowed the demise of the entire cottage.
In the third watch, the sea was killed, and the soldiers and civilians in the cottage were slaughtered, and it can be said that the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain.
Victorious, conquered the Wa military village, but the western army did not rest, because the biggest test to meet them was still to come, perhaps as soon as dawn, they would switch from the attacking side to the defending side.
Cleaning the battlefield, disposing of corpses, and repairing the walls became the most important work of the Western army, and more than 1,000 of the 30,000 soldiers were killed, and the rest were all put into post-war clean-up work.
Except for the 3,000 soldiers hidden outside, the rest of the Western army all entered the Wa military village, Liu Fa knew that the Wa military village was firmly held, once it was conquered, the whole army would be annihilated, so he deliberately left 3,000 outside, waiting for Liu Zhongwu's reinforcements to arrive, and the Western Xia army should be carried by Brother Richard inside.
Liu Fa firmly believed that as long as Liu Zhongwu was willing to send 50,000 troops, he would definitely be able to defeat Brother Richard, and in that case, if he turned around and attacked Shuofang, he might win a big victory.
The cottage is full of wooden houses, because the owners of the houses have been killed, the demolition is relatively fast, a large number of houses are demolished, and those removed wood is used to repair the wall.
The walled gate, there is no need to repair it, it is obvious that it will be forcibly attacked by the Western Xia army, Liu Fa simply ordered to seal the walled gate, and when it is necessary to rush out, it can be pushed open from the inside, and now it is directly sealed.
There is Niutou Mountain in the middle, although the killing sound here is shocking, but Brother Richard doesn't know at all, of course, this arrogant King of Jin never thought that the Wa military village was conquered on the third day, and it was not until the seventh day that the scouts found that the Wa military village had changed the military flag, and only then did they know that the military village was lost.
Hearing the news of the loss of the Wa military village, Richard was furious, and he was furious and killed seven scouts in one go, before he could be regarded as stabilizing his emotions.
"You don't hide the sea, you stupid pig, 8,000 soldiers guarding a small military village, it should be easy to hold on for seven days, you bastard."
At this time, Richard paid a bloody lesson for his arrogance, and he thought that he could easily hold on for seven days, so as to buy himself time to annihilate Liu Fa. However, this guy ignored two problems, the first problem is that the defenders of the city are stupid and did not hide the sea, and they have no ability to hold for seven days at all, and the status problem is that as the attacking party, it is the famous Song Dynasty general Liu Fa, how can he not take the small Ah Wa military village?
"Anyway, heaven has a way to go, and hell has no door to vote. Liu Fa, since you choose to enter the place of death, then throw the lives of the 30,000 Song soldiers in the Wa military village. ”
The furious Richard did not think that his strategy had been wrong, but thought that Liu Fa entered the Awa military village, so he could annihilate it, so he ordered the siege of the Awa military village.