The 30,000 dead soldiers of the Xia army were the fastest advancing troops, due to getting closer and closer to Shangnan City, the daredevils were fiercely attacked by the Song army's catapults and bed crossbows, and the losses were very huge, and at this time, the main force of the Xia army was gradually advancing, and the smoke of gunpowder soon dissipated, and Li Qing and others were finally able to see the situation in Shangnan City clearly.

"Lord Wang, the defense of Shangnan City is too strong, let the brothers of the daredevils retreat first! Otherwise, it's just a loss of troops in vain. Qin Hu suggested to Li Qing.

Li Qing accepted Qin Hu's suggestion, so he immediately ordered: "Pass the order, Mingjin withdraw the troops." ”

"Bell, bell, bell......"

The 30,000 soldiers of the daring army who were attacking immediately retreated like a tide when they heard the sound of Mingjin, and in less than half an hour of attack, the 30,000 daring soldiers were killed and wounded by nearly one-tenth, most of them were killed by the explosives of the Song army, or they were accidentally injured and killed by the Xia army.

After the Xia army retreated, Wang Kai's heart finally breathed a sigh of relief, although the Xia army broke through the outer positions of Shangnan and took those fortresses, but this did not matter, the main force of the Song army and Shangnan City did not lose at all, this is Wang Kai's biggest guard of honor, as long as the Song army can hold on for two to three days, the reinforcements of the Song army can arrive.

"General, you see that the Xia army has withdrawn." The adjutant general said to Wang Kai.

Wang Kai looked at the retreating Xia army and said: "This is only temporary, the herald army is assembled under the city, ready to meet the attack of the Xia army, and prepare all the thunder stones, gold juice, bows and arrows, explosives bags and fierce fire oil, as long as the Xia army dares to attack, this general must let them meet and break the blood." ”

Wang Kai stood at the head of the city and looked at the Xia army in the distance, his heart tightened, the Xia army out of the east was mainly foot soldiers, 200,000 army foot soldiers reached 150,000 people, which is unique in the history of the Xia army's attack, in the past, the Xia army attacked mostly cavalry, now this situation shows that the Xia army is adjusting the strength, the Xia army is no longer an army that relies on field battles to win, siege warfare has become a compulsory subject for the Xia army, and this attack on Shangnan City can be regarded as an attempt by the Xia army to attack a tough battle.

On the wall of Shangnan, the Song soldiers are busy nervously, thunder stones, explosives and other things are constantly moved on the city wall, and at the same time tens of thousands of troops in the city are waiting below, once the city wall is empty, they will immediately fill it, compared to the Xia army attacking the city, the Song army defending the city occupies a great advantage, this city wall and the moat outside the city is the hope of the Song army, these are the key to the Song army to be able to hold the city.

Standing on the head of the city, Wang Kai could clearly see everything about the Xia army outside the city, and soon Wang Kai found that the Xia army outside the city seemed to be assembling something, but because the distance was too far, Wang Kai did not see it very clearly, but Wang Kai had a bad premonition, Wang Kai speculated that the reason why the position outside the city was lost so quickly may have something to do with the new weapon of the Xia army, and this new weapon has a great relationship with gunpowder, otherwise it is impossible to explode.

After realizing the danger, Wang Kai immediately ordered: "Except for some observers, the rest of the people are evacuated to the Tibetan cave." ”

"General, why is that?" The deputy general asked Wang Kai very puzzled.

Wang Kai reprimanded impatiently: "So much nonsense, hurry up and execute the order, it's too late." ”

"Yes, the last general will order...... "The adjutant general immediately ordered.

Wang Kai only withdrew the troops guarding the city wall to the Tibetan soldier cave, and did not order the Song army to evacuate while waiting under the city, and the most vulnerable to attack according to the conventional attack was actually the soldiers guarding the city wall, so it was understandable that Wang Kai ordered the soldiers guarding the city to temporarily evacuate.

The movement of the Song army on the city wall, Qin Hu stood on the watchtower and saw it very clearly, Qin Hu immediately ran down and reported to Li Wuyu: "The prince is not good, the Song army is moving troops to evacuate the city wall." ”

Li Wu frowned when he heard it and said, "It seems that the Song army guards are not stupid, tell the brothers to hurry up and prepare." ”

"Lord Wang, if all the guards of the city are evacuated, won't it be in vain for us to fight like this!" Qin Hu said.

A cold light flashed in Li Qing's eyes and said, "Get ready first, this king has his own plans." ”

"Yes, the last general ...... order"

It took nearly half an hour for the 1,500 missiles to be prepared, and after the missiles were ready, Li Wu immediately ordered: "Order the catapults and bed crossbows to move forward." ”

"Catapults and bed crossbows move forward...... "The guards pushed the catapults and bed crossbows and began to move forward, and the Song soldiers who were observing from the city wall immediately reported this information to Wang Kai.

Wang Kai was furious when he heard the news and said: "Bastard, Li Wu is trying to force me out and order all the soldiers defending the city not to attack without an order, and continue to observe." ”

"Yes, General......"

Seeing that there was no movement on the city wall, Li Wu ordered again: "Order the death army to attack." ”

"Yes, lord." This time, Qin Hu did not hesitate and immediately conveyed Li Wu's military order.

If you want to attack Shangnan City, the first one is to cross the three-zhang wide moat outside the city, it is not easy to cross such a wide moat, if you use the most stupid method to fill the river with soil, the Xia army is bound to pay a lot of casualties, which is the last thing Li Wu wants to see, so the Xia army has made full preparations for this before the attack.

Li Wu specially ordered to build a kind of river-crossing arrow tower, in fact, it is very simple to add a large wooden board to the front of the original arrow tower, the wooden board is specially reinforced, more than three zhang high, when the arrow tower is pushed to the front of the moat, it can be put down like a suspension bridge, such a simple wooden bridge across the river was born, such a river-crossing arrow tower Xia Jun built nearly a hundred huge costs.

The Xia Army's daring army pushed more than 30 arrows across the river and was slowly moving forward, this was the Song sergeant who once again told Wang Kai this information, Wang Kai still said without moving: "Don't worry, wait for the Xia Army to walk in." ”

Seeing that Song Jun still refused to come out, Qin Hu said a little uncalmly: "Lord Wang, why don't you lead someone to attack!" This is a great time to be. ”

"Don't wait any longer, the longer it drags on this time, the better it will be for us, our river-crossing arrow tower will be pushed to the river, and the Song army will be dumbfounded after the drawbridge defense line!" Li Wu sneered.

"Lord Wang, in that case, why don't we invest more." Qin Hu asked.

"Thirty is enough." Li Wu said; "It's useless to have too many attack surfaces, and the more you have, the easier it is to be hit by the Song army, this one can cost a lot of money, and we have to try to avoid unnecessary losses."

"Yes, the Admiral understands." Qin Hu said.

Now Li Wu and Wang Kai are comparing to see who can calm down, of course, the closer the Xia army dares to push the death army, the more beneficial it is to the Xia army, the Song army is not idle, the Song army bed crossbowmen who stayed outside have already aimed the bed crossbow at these arrow towers, as long as Wang Kai gives an order, these bed crossbows will be launched immediately to destroy all the arrow towers, and at the same time, only a small number of people can operate catapults to throw explosives bags out, causing great losses to the Xia army's death soldiers.

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