Zhang Bin's method of "watering into a wall" took only four days and could not be carried out, because at this time, after all, it was only late autumn and early winter, and the place of Datong Mansion was not as cold as the Northeast and Western Regions.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the light of day had just appeared, and the Liao people, who were holding back their murderous intent, saw that there was no longer an odious ice wall on the Shuitou City Wall, and Yelu Dagu, the general of the Xijing Army, immediately ordered the Xijing Army to attack Shuitou City with a hideous face.

The Liao Xijing army is indeed much more powerful than the tribal army, but it is also wishful thinking to break through Shuitou City in a short time.

The siege of the next day continued, but compared to yesterday, Yelu Dagu slightly changed the strategy of the attack, and for most of the time, he was no longer obsessed with breaking the city, but let the Xijing army under his command be obsessed with killing people, in a vain attempt to consume the Song army in the city.

Therefore, on this night, Zhang Bin, Zhi Kerou and others found that compared with yesterday, the casualty rate began to increase, and the pressure on the defenders in the city increased sharply from top to bottom.

Yelu Dagu found that it was difficult to break the city in a short period of time, so he wanted to take advantage of the advantage of numbers to kill the Song army to a large extent, and when the defenders of the city wall took care of one thing and lost the other, they broke the city in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the Liao army continued to attack Shuitou City, not to mention, Yelu Dagu also showed the tactical acumen and rich experience that the Liao generals should have, this time the Liao army did not attack on a large scale in all directions, but with a combination of feints and strong attacks, and in the middle of the continuous whirlwind to charge and throw at Shuitou City, once the defenders were suppressed, they would quickly send a large army to climb the city.

The Liao army with 3,000 people as a team, in the Shuitou City around the continuous charge, until the defenders in the city bow and arrow attack range of the critical point, but quickly retreated, and at the critical point, the Liao army showed superb horse archery skills, a rain of arrows was thrown to the head of the city of Shuitou City.

Including some rockets, although the snowstorm has just passed, but the winter in the north is dry, rockets are easy to ignite the wood, fortunately, the Song army in the city under the leadership of Zhang Bin and Zhi Kerou, has long made preparations for fire prevention, there is nothing on the city head that can be ignited, and the buildings near the city wall in the city have long been demolished and made into various utensils to defend the city.

However, in such weather and environment, once the Song army defending the city was hit by a rocket, the arrow wound and burn would quickly lose its combat effectiveness.

This attack of the Liao people immediately reduced their own casualties and increased the casualties of the Song army in the city.

This situation lasted for three days, and on the fourth day, Zhang Bin ordered twenty new stone throwing machines to be built in a hurry to go to the city.

In just four or five days, seven craftsmen were able to build twenty new stone throwers with people, naturally because the previous stone throwers had been transformed.

The dozen or so ropes used to pull were removed and replaced into a very sturdy basket, which was filled with iron pieces collected from the city, which were written with fixed weights, which would increase or decrease as they were used to adjust the range and accuracy.

Although Shuitou City is not big, it is still possible to empty a place and use it to test the stone throwing machine, so these stone throwing machine Zhang Bin has personally stared at the throwing machine in the past few days, and Zhang Bin has adjusted it a few times in the middle, and the longest range has been able to reach about one hundred and fifty steps, which is already twice the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows.

The Liao army, as yesterday, began to charge the city again in a roundabout throw.

Yelu Dagu rode on his war horse with a relieved expression, and he was very satisfied with this tactic of causing the Song army in the city to increase casualties, while they themselves suffered few casualties.

"General Yelu is really powerful, but this kind of tactic can only be used by our Liao people, change the offensive and defensive positions, with the cavalry and archery level of the Song army, it is difficult to accurately throw arrows when maneuvering." Ma Gutou, the city lord of Shuitou City, had a flattering look on his face when he faced Yelu Dagu at this time.

Yelu Dagu snorted coldly, glanced at Li Hanguang on his left, and said, "This tactic is proposed by Senator Li. ”

Li Hanguang on the other side looked excited, his face showed just the right amount of reserve, and he smiled and nodded at the Magu head who came over.

Although more than a hundred years have passed, the status of the Han people in the Liao State has been greatly improved, and there are some people who are officials in the court and generals in the army, but in the eyes of the pure Khitans, the Han people are still inferior to them, so Ma Gutou ignored the kindness shown by Li Hanguang, which made Li Hanguang extremely angry in his heart, but he did not dare to show it.

"Huh! There was an extra row of stone throwers on the head of the Song people's city. "There is an eagle archer behind Yelu Dagu, whose eyesight is better than that of ordinary people, and he has noticed that the head of the Song Kingdom is different from yesterday.

When Yelu Dagu and the others heard this, they took a closer look, and in the middle of the city head of Shuitou City, there were really five stone throwers lined up.

For the power of the stone thrower, Yelu Dagu and the others naturally knew that they used this thing to shoot at Shuitou City for four whole days a few days ago, although when dozens of catties of stone bullets fell from the sky, even if they didn't hit, their roaring momentum could also scare the enemy army, thus affecting the siege or defense of the city, but the problem was that the accuracy was too poor, and it would not be affected much at all when it met an army with a strong fighting will like their Liao army.

"Hahaha......... There are only five stone throwers on the head of the city on the side of the Song people, and each round of five stone bullets is estimated to not be able to fall into our cavalry. "Yelu Dagu didn't pay any attention to these five stone throwers.

Ma Gutou also said with a sneer: "It is estimated that the Song people want to scare our cavalry with stone bullets, and want to distract them, making it difficult to complete the roundabout cavalry shooting." ”

Yelu Dagu sneered and ordered: "Pass the order, let the sons and daughters leave the stone bullets alone, the Song people can hit five stone bullets in the next day, and they are already considered to be excellent stone throwers." ”

Several of their own soldiers agreed, and quickly rushed to the four teams of cavalry who were about to start charging and throwing around, and conveyed Yelu Dagu's order to each Liao army, provoking a burst of ridicule from the four teams of cavalry from four directions to the Song army at the head of the city.

Just kidding, the Song people only prepared five stone throwers in each direction, and it was simply wishful thinking to scare the battle-hardened Khitan warriors.

"Hey, this stone thrower of the Song people seems to be different, there are only three or four people next to each of them." Li Hanguang couldn't look down on the difference between the stone throwers in Chengtou, but he could see the number of Song soldiers operating the stone throwers, and couldn't help but remind him with a puzzled face.

The soldiers of the Song Army who were busy around the five stone throwers were only a dozen people in total, which was only enough for one stone thrower to pull the rope.

Yelu Dagu, Ma Gutou and Li Hanguang and others had doubts in their hearts, but they didn't take it to heart.

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